
NEW POETRY
Where the Lover Shows the Secrets by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Two Prairie Poems by Benjamin Rozoyoner
The Shudder of the Drums: The air was heavy with the murmur and the rumour of thousands of voices. No one spoke aloud; but it was as though the great deep whispered and muttered on a far shore. It was one of those occasions on which little things became great. The royal carriages that rolled by at intervals drew every eye towards them; plumed officers who galloped to and fro were gazed at eagerly as they spoke to other officers, indicating an order within an expressive wave of the hand.