Irene Koronas is the poetry editor for Wilderness House Literary Review. She has three full length books, Portraits Drawn from Many, Ibbetson Street Press; Pentakomo Cyprus, Cervena Barva Press; and Turtle Grass; Muddy River Books. She has numerous chapbooks and poetry in many anthologies. She reviews poetry books for the small press community.

Irene Koronas.

in saying

she says light shines brightest
in dark horror

she says the spiritual is more
dangerous than the political

she says when she thinks
spiritual, she thinks about capacity

I tend to compare beads
flat glass beads. flat blue on beads

he says he went everywhere because
he was nowhere

he says prophets are
into justice and kindness

and if one strays from justice
one is not godly

he says, continuous writing
is a kind of devotion

I say, hey, all this sounds okay when
they say we say his sayings

all the sayings going after all the said
is said without saying anything

she says death is a mystery
she says there is no writing
without being yourself

she says if something is true
you will find it everywhere

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