Because She Had Gone Through
            All the Plum Wine

                  Hannah is making goat cheese
                  in her flat above the city census office.
                  She kneads it with fingers trim as bullets,
                  keeps the windows closed
                  so as not to alarm the elderly warden
                  responsible to the state
                  for reporting suspicious behavior.
                  Still, such aromas find a way
                  to inform on themselves.

                  Hannah works her knuckles
                  into the warm, liquid center,
                  driving her digits clean through
                  to the wax paper
                  at the base of the bowl,
                  massaging the heart
                  of an unknown donor. A nail
                  breaks and she recovers it,
                  puts it in a glass by the window.

                  (publ. Vox Journal : Vol 2., Spring 2006)
                  Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Ekleksographia:
Wave Two

March, 2010

Poetry

Arthur McMaster

Arthur McMaster

Arthur McMaster served in the U.S. Army as a Czech linguist, in the 1960s. Upon retirement from Federal Service in 2002 he returned to school, earning an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida. His short fiction appears in the Wisconsin Review. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.