poetry

Brendan A. McGrath
Ghetto Sunrise

Gabriel Olearnik
Paula, sed ferox

Gabriel Olearnik
Parfum

Gabriel Olearnik
Hephaestus

Amanda Glass
Shriven

Matthew Mehan
Before Nebuchadnezzar

Joseph O'Brien
The Gargoyles Return

Ian Van Heusen
at the destruction of the body

Eric Kingsepp
Draining the Marshes

Mike Mangione
Be Not Afraid

Cristina A. Montes
The Carp

John A. Di Camillo
Numbers

Back to Advent/Christmas 2007

The Carp
Swimming,
O Carp, you trace
infinity symbols
under the weeping waterfall’s
ripples.

—Cristina A. Montes

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Cristina A. Montes currently works in the Philippine Supreme Court. She graduated with an A.B. in Humanities Specializing in Philosophy from the University of Asia and the Pacific in 1997, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines in 2005.