dangers of moonlight by Peter Schwartz Augusta, Me.   I believe in absence and that deep forests of it wait like cold cocoons   that tomorrow's most solid lullaby allows only so many visitations before being prevoked into vigils   which fool themselves where they sit like pigeons soaked in chaos   like some violent new perfume arriving by dying through the keyhole   (such roots long for twilight even as they dust themselves for sleep) Peter Schwartz has over 150 poems published, some of them in nationally-distributed journals, some printed overseas. He has stories and paintings published on and offline as well as his own somewhat controversial journal that can be sampled at: www.watchtheeye.com. He's also the associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review and co-founder of www.sitrahahra.com. He lives almost silently in the forests of Maine.

(photo by Ronald Fortini)