The Greensilk Journal

January 2012! Happy New Year!!!

Submissions for the Winter Issue are now Closed. Please allow us to catch up to the abundance of the wonderful pieces sent . As always, THANK YOU!

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Falls Arriving

by james g. piatt

I hear the breath
Of fall’s last gasp,

In the midst of white
And chilly winds,

It coldly foretells
The final day

Of summer,
Where tiny birds

To weather bend, and
A warm dog becomes

The hobo’s
Best friend.

Bio: James earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, and his doctorate from Brigham Young University. Two of his relatives, John James Piatt and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, were prolific poets who wrote their poetry in the eighteen hundreds. James is retired and spends his time in the summer sitting along side a river penning poetry and writing short stories and suspense novels. He has had over one hundred poems published in poetry anthologies, magazines, and journals.

GSJ is very proud to announce

THE PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES For 2011:

The Fox Land by Santiago del Dardano Turann from the Spring Issue-Poetry

Contemplation of a Drawing by Tom Sheehan from this-the Fall Issue-Story