Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle
The FloridianReporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula
Poetry · Poem (Translated From an Invented Gulf-Patois)
A short lyric on the southern-most harbor at dawn.
The rooster wakes the pink stucco where the bougainvillea spreads its dry, magenta paper.
The sea-grape leaves are green plates scraped clean by the salt wind that blows from Cuba.
We walk the limestone lane before the heat becomes a wall and the tourists wake.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Korean)
Translated by Lily Bao from a Korean original that does not exist.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Floridian-Timucuan)
An imagined survival of an early northern-interior landscape.
Poem
A lyric dealing with the intense humidity of the southern interior.
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