Contrary Magazine : Spring 2012

Three Poems by Ronda Broatch

“I read Ronda Broatch’s submission and fell in love with every word. The hard part was deciding which poems not to publish.” ~ Poetry Editor Shaindel Beers. Ronda Broatch is the author of Shedding Our Skins (Finishing Line Press, 2008), and Some Other Eden (2005) and poetry editor for Crab Creek Review.

Three Poems by Ronda Broatch

Kiss My Annulus

Ringing phones start too many stories. Take this one for example. When it rings right at the mouth, we are forced to consider others that open this way – those crime novels, that translation, some classic, a romance, the paperback. And we wonder how to react to it happening again, here. Ring, ring. Are [...]

The Extra Knot

by Holli Downs

It was me screaming in the reflection of Dr. Maxwell’s sunglasses saying “the kids! the knot! the rope!” and pulling on his sleeve trying to explain what he already knew- that there was an extra knot-

Voodoo Sonnets

by Doug Ramspeck

An Eclipse

by Slava Bart

The Tarbouche Maker

by Michael A. Telafici

When they entered they were not sure it was the right alley. They looked up to see scraps of sky between old dark beams like the ribs of a boat. Maybe it was covered once. “Do you think this is it?” he asked. “I don’t know. I’m completely turned around.” They walked a few hesitant [...]

Home

by Steve Mitchell

She opens her eyes. She’d squeezed them closed, waiting for the voices to pass her by. As if closing them might allow her to disappear. It was a ritual she’d believed in when she was younger, but now she’s nearly eleven and has lost her faith. She’s wedged between the chest freezer and the cinder [...]