and all of the fine and enjoyable poetry featured by the editors Constance Brewer and Kathleen Cassen Mickelson.
I’m honored to find the two-liner “Poplar Applause” right at the front of the issue.
Conlang Type: A Posteriori
Language Family: Indo-European
Script: Native script unknown, readily romanized (‘How convenient this should chance to be so’ says the conlanger!)
Mission: To create a fictional romanesque mediterranean language for use in an alternate history fantasy novel.
Lexemes-so-far: 200-250
acnocerei alo wicerei alo esth
eio sei hiven nivenetar. acthe vwei ha iawra althiva…ava nekala via kivenwei thurthem: ictho a recthem
Midwest Script is a constructed phonetic alphabet for American English.
Edit: Thanks to Simon Ager of Omniglot.com for including Midwest in his directory of constructed scripts!
I’ve seen a black sand beach
stranger than any foreign world
where King Poseidon draped in seaweed
once walked upon the Earth–
a black sand beach where steel-colored waves
wash up to shining, ashen stones
nested beneath charcoal plateaus that break out
all over in lime green leaves.