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 Floridian-Timucuan)
An imagined survival of an early northern-interior landscape.
The owl speaks to the river-grass before the moon is fully round; the fish-crow knows the water's path.
We left our clay pots by the cove where the sweet-water meets the salt and the oak-galls are black.
Now the Spanish moss grows long like grey hair on the shoulders of an ancient, sleeping chief.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Korean)
Translated by Lily Bao from a Korean original that does not exist.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Gulf-Patois)
A short lyric on the southern-most harbor at dawn.
Poem (Translated From an Invented Calusa-Vernacular)
A voice from the shell-heaps of Estero Bay.
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