Author: Constance Brewer

  • Origin Stories – Stellasue Lee

    Origin Stories – Stellasue Lee

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    Her Honey-Bunch, Gum-Drop, Sweetie-Pie Is Gone by Stellasue Lee Saturday, no calls I have to make, no plans of any kind, just this cat looking deeply into my eyes, questioning why my husband isn’t here— and if she could, she would order me to bring him back— When I try to hold her, comfort her,…

  • Origin Stories – Sharon Scholl

    Origin Stories – Sharon Scholl

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    Stolperstein* by Sharon Scholl One by one we can take them in — those names that once were flesh and lived among us. Neighbors disowned when they were politically inconvenient. People in the prison camps disavowed even when we smelled their corpses. One by one, their memories, insistent, take their former places in our homes.…

  • Origin Stories – L. Shapley Bassen

    Origin Stories – L. Shapley Bassen

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    IRL by L. Shapley Bassen In Real Life, words, pauses, punctuation. Smells, perfume, memory is a scrim, a masking of movements, bowel and ballet. Autumn, age, are slow shock. Now, whether body can weather toxins? Ankle cramp? No acronyms suffice. Spell it out. Origin Stories – IRL This is a new poem, haven’t submitted anywhere…

  • Origin Stories – Howard Lieberman

    Origin Stories – Howard Lieberman

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    A Butterfly in Odessa by Howard Lieberman The medium suits her, and she sings; she sings as if absolutely alone, Surrounded by simulations of grief: desertion, denial, umbrella’d by umbrage, eyes aflame with a kindle of tears. What is that for which she really weeps: this futile place, that distant, venal State, that flat, fatiguing…

  • Origin Stories – Wanda Praisner

    Origin Stories – Wanda Praisner

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    Karakorum by Wanda S. Praisner That sunny dome! those caves of ice! S. T. Coleridge For social studies, I show my old slides of Mongolia. The five of us entering Ulan Bator’s Hotel B where flies blacken the breakfast but ignore the white yogurt. My family by the propeller plane on the sandy runway. A…

  • Spring 2023 Issue

    Spring 2023 Issue

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    The Spring 2023 Issue We welcome the Spring 2023 Issue of Gyroscope Review, along with National Poetry Month. There will be plenty of reading material, not just in the new issue, but from our talented poets as they provide the Origin Story of one of their poems. A new poet every day through April for…