The Larcenist (Volume 2, Issue #3)

By Audrey Rey and Mina Hunt

The Larcenist is an international literary magazine, published bimonthly in paperback and ebook form.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329214460

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The Larcenist (Volume 2, Issue #3)

The

Larcenist

Stealing reality to achieve art

The Larcenist

Volume II, Issue 3

(June/July, 2015)

ISBN: 978-1-329-21446-0

Editors:

Audrey Rey (poetry, stageplay)

Mina Hunt (prose, stageplay)

Illustrations: Hana Mori

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.0

Cover illustration based on Ladies in Lavender by Mira Patel.

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Poetry

Gabrielle LaFrank

Bitter

He doesn't wait until the weekend

to pour whiskey in his coffee.

From the scream of the alarm

every miserable Monday

to the last exhausted sighs

of slow Friday evenings,

he pours coffee into his liquor.

He spends his weekdays numb,

able to work, unable to think,

going through the motions like a machine

with a taste in his mouth

almost as bitter as the ones

that others have left him.

Maruša Romih

Kitchen Counter

the kitchen counter counts

the cuts on the cutting board

the cat’s claws that scratch it

the canopies of the trees it sees

and it counts the times you

bring home the brunette

because among them all it

loves the brunette the most

because you always bring her

to the kitchen and you lift

her up on the counter and she

lifts up the skirt and lets down

her hair and you let down your pants

and

the kitchen counter silently counts

the times she countlessly comes

Max Reagan

A Brief Interlude In-Between Births

The only thing that would have been different

from what had happened in the morning

is the fact that you have no idea

what I'm doing with your life,

quelled cerebral,

spoon ineligible,

weevil issues and

a bucket of cider;

vinegar chips and the

rest of the bourbon bile,

bikers crunching gravel and

their teeth cracking in the lurking potential,

the cosmos squad formulates jello for our skulls,

the same day water drinks itself and drools out a cloud of silver linings,

wings of birds of prey sail aligned with the moons third eye, all the while

licking her naval with a lemon dropper,

astounding ash in capillaries and cigarette stubs in her eyes,

when we went to the park we saw the

homeless man rejoice in the sorrow of his freedom,

playing a guitar with four strings and a

rabbit named Hendrix perched on his head

-- we made it to the ocean all right but there's no jelly in that cortex

Sharon L. H. Kelly

Cowboy

Stetson shaded eyes

he scans the hills for outlaws

on his broomstick horse

Gaston Villanueva

Broken Piano Keys

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