Issue 34, Spring '13

"Still life with turnstile" and two more poems

by Dianne Timblin • • Issue 30 • 05.21.2012


Still life with turnstile


the tile               the alteration          the platform
the sunglasses     the red jacket              the whir
the blue sign         the ratchet             the screech
the brown bag      the delay        the one witness
the pay phone        the map                 the silence
the doors closing       the fare              the blue line
                              the penny








Still life with industrial carpeting


the dot               the repetition                the dark
the framework    the cassette         the patchwork
the window      the black square                  the if
the hush             the hovering             the number
the forgotten     the right sock               the damp
the sidewalk        the waves                   the what
                        the open window








Still life with ceramic tile


the bowl             the banner              the monocle
the teeth          the four frames          the damage
the grain            the signature           the cigarette
the feather      the molded glass      the white rim
the serration   the checkerboard        the bandage
the cloud     the six of diamonds    the five leaves
                            the erasure








Dianne Timblin

Dianne Timblin

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Dianne Timblin lives, writes, and edits in Durham, North Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in Talisman, Phoebe, Rivendell, Fanzine, and Foursquare, among other journals. Most recently, her poem “Glockenspiel Songbook” was translated into Spanish by Dayana Fraile and Guillermo Parra for Dayana’s popular Venezuelan literary blog, Eternal Typewriter. Dianne has been a finalist for the Brenda Smart Poetry Prize, and her work was selected for the Poetry at Noon reading series at the U.S. Library of Congress. She is currently at work on a group of poems that dwell on mythology and dreaming.