Steve Klepetar

We have to highlight a great, unique piece by Steve Klepetar, "So Many Ways" in vol. 5, no. 4 Summer 2014 at LostCoastReview. This particular genre of poem is one that delves past astronomy into philosophy--and it's a place where most writers get lost. Their work is too untouchable, too much a drone. His piece bucks the odds, and moves from emotion to physicality to what lurks in the hearts of all. There's such a sense of life here, of maturity and complication and time having passed; something many poems don't have, or convey in a cliche way.

Here's an excerpt:

So many ways to watch the world

explode into tiny fragments of colored light:

close your eyes and watch the sun disappear

behind those little curtains of flesh;

climb a mountain on a humid night, straining

up as your arches ache,  [...]

There, in moonlight

remember your other name, the secret one

your lover whispered as hands  [...]