10th Street Women "Content is a glimpse of something. An encounter like a flash." Willem de Kooning Lepidopterous she noiselessly unfolds from the swaddling moth-light beneath these crazed impastos an insolent wing the feral moisture of a mocking smile each stockinged thigh implied implicit in these silken tremors of her savage after- image rising as if through flocks of startled pigeons as if glimpsed ascending into twilight’s grime- stained airshaft past the streaming shimmer of empty window panes into evening’s horn- tormented streets. Observe how all around that brutal absent gaze each zig-zag crowding contour seems to carom backward past the reckless aberrations of the wrist effacing every swift abruption of his searching hand to softly leave behind what only flutters indistinct to leave behind itself the crumpled evidence of last week’s news a sillioned contour map of what it is or was that’s so precisely absent here or maybe wasn’t really even ever there but left such slashing concentrated absolute- ness in its wake that our hapless abstract speech might only barely trace the furtive flap of time’s erasure encounter in this stark loquacity her imperious escape only the vivid vicinities of her departure. DB Jonas DB Jonas is an orchardist living in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico. Born in California in 1951, he was raised in Japan and Mexico. After several Wanderjahre in Spain, France and Italy, he studied philosophy and literature at the Universities of California and Padova, and earned postgraduate degrees at Princeton and Yale. Following his retirement from a long career in business and the sciences, he returned to the practice of poetry. His work has recently appeared in Tar River, Blue Unicorn, Whistling Shade, Neologism, Consilience Journal, Poetica Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Jerry Jazz Journal, The Decadent Review, The Amphibian, Willows Wept, Sequoia Speaks; Revue {R}évolution and others.
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June 2025
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