BIO: Jacquelyn Shah holds: A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), Rutgers U; M.A. English, Drew U; M.F.A. and Ph.D. English literature/creative writing–poetry, U of Houston. Her publications include a chapbook, small fry; a full-length book, What to Do with Red; and poems in various journals. She was Literal Latté’s 2018 Food Verse Contest winner and is a 2023 non-fiction book contest winner, memoir publication forthcoming. Iconoclast, she loves surrealism and all quirky poems!

Gordian KnotEnriched by words, phrases,  
   tangled, from a few 
   Bill Knott poems Concealed from the eye, out of most of one dozen autumn drops, a liquid moment adequately echoes the picturesque golden flights into my(s)elf when I am blown from consummate capsules. This extravagance of savage yearly tearfalls attempts to assert the wisdom of a sparsely inhabited archipelago–– in the opus of my wandering (s)elf. Ritual aggrandizements must adhere on the ledge, dottily…