Mark Young has been publishing poetry for nearly fifty-five years. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. He is the author of more than twenty books, primarily poetry but also including speculative fiction & art history. A new e-book, Rebuilding the Submarine, will be out soon from Quarter After Press.

He is the editor of the ezine Otoliths, & lives on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia.

Recent work has appeared or is to appear in Moria, Fact-Simile, The Last Vispo Anthology, Eccolinguistics, Ditch, Cricket Online Review, 3 a.m., E·ratio, Streetcake Magazine, Gobbet, Tip of the Knife, Cordite, Offcourse, Country Music, Caliban Online, Quarter After, BlazeVOX, & Marsh Hawk Review amongst other places.

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THREE POEMS
            Mark Young

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A LINE FROM KOBE BRYANT

Structure is occasionally
the subject. We can
look at film. The first
teaser trailer, com-

posed entirely of muslin
& light cotton, has hit
the internet. Still in
its infancy, it seeks to

provide a filtered
understanding of the
meaning/significance
of Hamlet's final words

for the next American
Solar Challenge. Sad
but insightful. Talk about
bringing it full circle

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APOPTOSIS

First it was
cycles of oral
legends. Then
we lived in a
paper trail of
stories. All
small family-run
businesses. Now
contemporary
cultural fashion
dictates that we
use a hand-held
punch card
marker which
cannot handle
such subtleties
as the varied ex-
pressions of rain
in the art, literature
& customs of the
native people of the
greater southwest.

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MOSAIC

    He used
small pieces
of colored
    glass to

cover the
    future in
    ordered
patterns in

    order to
recognize
it when it
    arrived.

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