Welcome to the second issue of The Oral Tradition! With this issue, the commitment to publishing oral literature (and poetry in particular) has been strongly reaffirmed. My thanks to all those who submitted their work, and congratulations to those who have been published. Now, read, listen, and enjoy!
Bridgette Shade
Cactus People
Desmond Kon
nominalism is a liquid kuhi
a haiku is a quiet nod
a haiku between the tack and the clew
David Fraser
Broken
Madeline Phillips
County Fair Season
Observations from a Poet
Stephen Lefebure
Gerasa
Survivor
R G Gregory
the bouncing spider
Laura Manuelidis
sun and rooms
Stephen Ajadi
Hegira (I Think I'll Die Here)
Shannon Quinn
Talking to Jerry Orbach at 4am after I've been awake for 73 hours
Lynda Monahan
chosen
K.V. Skene
Everything Would Have been Better If Nothing Had Become What It Is
Out In The Flux of Unendurable Cold and Cyclic Light
Keith Moul
Beowulf vs. Grendel - a transliteration
Ben Gehrels