Jan FitzGerald
Spider
And so it comes to this -
washing her face in the basin, the giantess
has pulled the plug on you.
I meant you no harm, nor you me-
room enough in the bathroom for both of us,
meeting each morning eye to eye...
Deep within high-tensile silk
you lined it up,
unswayed by the sway of things, spider,
trusting the tug at the tip of instinct,
mandible & spinneret
working a thousand threads of night.
And now what are you?
A swirling tea leaf.
What fortune does this tell?
Rain, they say... Is that all,
little crippled asterisk,
my Count of Monte Cristo?
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Jan FitzGerald has been published in NZ literary journals since 1970 and overseas in The London Magazine, Acumen (UK), and others. She paints fulltime and lives in Napier (“Art Deco City” of New Zealand) with poet-painter, Leonard Lambert. Her new book is due out soon with Steele Roberts Publishers.
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RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/, ISSN: 1938-3592, Volume Three (2009): Immanence/ Imminence
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VOLUME SIX (2020): ARCHIVES ON FIRE
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- VOLUME THREE (2009): Immanence / Imminence
- Editors, "Almost Nearly So"
- * * * FEATURING * * *
- "Baobab Tree: local knowledge / global politics"
- Obododimma Oha, "Embracing the Baobab Tree"
- Toyin Adepoju, "Ifa Divination & van Gogh"
- ‘Tunde Awosanmi, "Wole Soyinka’s Africa"
- Jen Bouchard, "The Essays of Suzanne Césaire"
- Peter Ciccariello, "3 Works"
- M. Neelika Jayawardane, "Life in Transit"
- Obiwu, "Ndebele’s Art of Redemption"
- Tom Savage, "3 Poems"
- * * * POEMS * * *
- Salvatore Attardo, "Columbus Poems"
- Emily Brandt, "Deep blue"
- Charles Freeland, "Units of Measurement"
- Geoffrey Gatza, "4 Poems"
- Ray Gonzalez, "4 Poems"
- Jeff Harrison, "Knots of Hilda Doolittle"
- Mary Kasimor, "a vase" & "xxxv"
- Penn Kemp, "Dream Sequins (i & ii)"
- Camille Martin, "double sonnets"
- Jonathan Minton, "4 Poems"
- Robert Mittenthal, "Memory Play" & "Severance"
- Kelly Moffett, "God of Water"
- Sheila Murphy, "5 Poems"
- Pamela Johnson Parker, "Narcissus: Narke"
- Mark Prejsnar, "transmetadata map"
- Michael Ruby, "Infinite Worlds"
- Karen Schubert, "Cutting Ties"
- * * * FICTIONS * * *
- Mark Jacobs, "Singing in a Foreign Land"
- Pierrino Mascarino, "Peril of the Miss Jenny"
- Robert Ready, "Her Infinite Variety"
- * * * FEATURING * * *
- "Myth, Erasure & Consequence: Selected Poems"
- Page Starzinger, "Myth, Erasure & Consequence"
- Regan Good, "The Rocking Horse"
- Carol Peters, "de Kooning, No Title"
- Shin Yu Pai, "requiescat"
- Mary Kaiser, "Gretel"
- Victoria Chang, "Man 4"
- Robert High Guard, "Giving Up Lent"
- M. Jan Bender, "Syrinx"
- Matt Miller, "Thrift"
- Jennifer Luebbers, "after the Lakota"
- * * * REVIEWS * * *
- Ailbhe Darcy, review: Zawacki's "Petals of Zero"
- Tod Edgerton, review: Harmon's "Quinnehtukqut"
- Roy Exley, review: Daive’s “Under the Dome”
- Crag Hill, review: Gizzi’s "New Depths"
- Susan Scarlata, review: Nakayasu's "Hurry Home"
- Jess Wigent, review: Greenfield's "Tracer"
- * * * ESSAYS * * *
- Hope Bernard, "Spaces of the Corseted Body"
- Erika M. Nelson, "Traumatic Traces"
- * * * FEATURING * * *
- "New Zealand Poetry & Poetics"
- Bryan Walpert, "Foreword"
- Shona-Ellen Barnett, "One for the Pukeko"
- Ross Brighton, "Poem"
- Jennifer Compton, "The Topography of Wellington"
- Jan FitzGerald, "Spider"
- Helen Lehndorf, "A skull" & "1001 Questions"
- Elizabeth Smither, "Lipstick stain on a poem"
- André Surridge, "Lunch in Prague"
- Tim Upperton, "Like smoke"
- Mercedes Webb-Pullman, "prime dream"
- * * * DIALOGUES * * *
- James Belflower, Anne Heide, Michael Martinez
- Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, "Box Trick"
- * * * IMAGE-TEXTS * * *
- carlyle baker, "about to happen"
- John M. Bennett, "Poemages"
- Vernon Frazer, "Random Axis"
- Philip Meersman, “Multzumess”
- Philip Meersman, "Concreet gedicht"
- James Sanders, "Self-Portraits"
- * * * FEATURING * * *
- "Review Review"
- Jared Schickling, "Preface"
- Nate Pritts, "Review Review"
- John Bloomberg-Rissman, "Lighter Darker Bouquets”
- Mark Spitzer, "No Bullshit Reviews"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #1"
- Christian Prozak, review: "Wine-Stained Notebook"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #2"
- Christian Prozak, review: "Rimbaud, Double Life"
- Murat Nemet-Nejat, "A Frameless Review"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #3"
- Christian Prozak, review: "Delta Blues"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #4"
- Christian Prozak, review: "Pendulums of Euphoria"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #5"
- Gina Myers, "How I Came to Review Books"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #6"
- Murat Nemet-Nejat, "A Historical Postscript"
- Chuck Richardson, "Ketchup Stain on Page 87"
- Anon., "Response to Kentson #7"
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