Streetlight Magazine | Roselyn Elliott | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/rose/activity/ Activity feed for Roselyn Elliott. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:39:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3f20d73dc36596e9522f8e1e0f317698 Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, 17 Year Cicada by David B. Prather https://streetlightmag.com/2023/10/06/17-year-cicada-by-david-prather/#comment-503821 Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:19:50 -0400 Wow, such a good poem, the way it carries seamlessly, literally and figuratively all the way through! Thank you.

]]> a4514be6fdc3b09647a1641faff1c708 Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, A Photograph From That Summer on Point Reyes by Martha E. Snell https://streetlightmag.com/2022/10/28/a-photograph-from-that-summer-on-point-reyes-by-martha-e-snell/#comment-481141 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 23:09:56 -0400 Congratulations, Marty. Enjoyed the poem.

]]> f4f640050d6b63fea635b0a1aa29c1b6 Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott https://streetlightmag.com/2021/02/19/my-most-memorable-patient-by-rose-eliot/#comment-220066 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:28:24 -0500 Thanks, Erika. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

]]> 1e617f372c6cd30f2ce6fe1a014be04b Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott https://streetlightmag.com/2021/02/19/my-most-memorable-patient-by-rose-eliot/#comment-219805 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 01:48:05 -0500 Thank you, Lynda, for reading and for your comment. So glad you found it moving. One of the profound experiences of my life.

]]> 622a11c13b13bfa824c9a71db2a5a85f Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, Black Satin Petunias by J.R. Solonche https://streetlightmag.com/2020/09/25/black-satin-petunias-by-j-r-solonche/#comment-173707 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:06:06 -0400 Thank you. Enjoyed your originality.

R. Elliott

]]> 2c150d279b2a0685eb5c9063d0fba311 Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, Raking Black Walnuts by Fred Wilbur https://streetlightmag.com/2019/11/04/raking-black-walnuts-by-fred-wilbur/#comment-95686 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:54:00 -0500 Loved this, Fred. Both the lyrical prose and the poem. Thank you for drawing us into autumn’s own world.

Rose

]]> b678f1ff1bf49fa960221456d4285302 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26350 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:00:26 -0400 when the horizon dips
into darkness unsure about dawn,
I touch the faded photo, your face
still wearing a mere wisp of pink
blurred now into brushed-aside memories.

death is a trickster. it comes and […]

]]> f0c97b9a63a3d20cf2adfe546aac44ca Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26125 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:00:48 -0400 From the Flume
The banks of the West Ausable River

Is a place you’ve never been.

Staring straight down into the flume

Violent bursts of water over

Great granite boulders mesmerizes

The boys, but I […]

]]> 36b4eae1ed415cf19af937429150f4e0 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27102 Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:00:39 -0400 So, you’ve read a literary magazine’s guidelines, you’ve even read its sample poems available online, or ordered a recent copy of the magazine to learn about what they publish. Maybe you’ve taken a class/w […]

]]> 2eff566d6471bafd5c7e68072346ed5b Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26160 Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:00:53 -0400 because hope is a motherfucker,
i went up to each house of the dead
and knocked, but no one answered.

still, i am haunted:
the sun sets a little dimmer ever since the last
feeble twitch of that cat’s t […]

]]> 67a28baf0ed1700a1fe82aac7a9e5849 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26129 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:00:39 -0400 lopes as only
Hare can, all
fits and starts,
ears sky-sieves
for the whoosh
wings and clenched
claws make
as death stoops
towards him—
but not today,
the sky
bluebare serene
in the heat, the
great r […]

]]> f77fd9c09e3984ee90701a721dc3078d Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26127 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:00:27 -0400 She’s been sitting on the feeder
since first light, gathering herself,
I suppose, for the journey south.
I wonder if she slept there, waking
for a sip from time to time, adding
calories, planning her long, w […]

]]> d71c6c177cbb53b76fe2a4516a991112 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26071 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:00:43 -0400 His breakfast smells like ripe tomatoes
and promises,
pledged in youth and romance,
a starter home, a child or two,
a job with promotions and perks,
naive happiness.

We are older now,
each creak and […]

]]> 5000336af68dcd9c4120ae3dba0f95e8 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25918 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:00:59 -0400 I try to find beauty
………in the autumn night.
Your stars, your moon,
they’re still right there where you left them
………But without you
they seem merely splinters of glass
soon to be swept into w […]

]]> 9862221537485bd6dfcd1dc504eabca8 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26069 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:00:00 -0400 Our beckoning cabby
from Tunisia,
snaked through preposterous traffic,
past the icy neon signs
and the greening fragrance of stacked Christmas pines,

to the Met
where I almost cried, nearly blind
from Van […]

]]> b8c0388ba25afb541d441aac873cb3ba Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, The Strangeness of Being Here at All: Franz Wright’s Redemption Story By Alex Joyner https://streetlightmag.com/2019/09/02/the-strangeness-of-being-here-at-all-franz-wrights-redemption-story-by-alex-joyner/#comment-83875 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 18:34:41 -0400 Thank you! Wonderful writing and quotes.

]]> c334f61ad44355b365092f3d9ad6d2c1 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25908 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:00:56 -0400 ……….Hello? Is there anybody in there?
……….Just nod if you can hear me.
……….Is there anyone at home?
…………..Comfortably Numb
…………..Pink Floyd

He lay on his side
like a […]

]]> cdc1342f1cdddcd7c225f7afc60a4cd0 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25905 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:00:29 -0400 The Mojave, January 1988
Twenty-five months in the Army
and who would put a kid like me
in charge of a six million dollar
tank? I’ve got a crew of tragically
obedient soldiers, all teen-age, one
who m […]

]]> 3e5dfa5cd8735107aa0816a72b6035f9 Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, Comings and Goings by Roselyn Elliott https://streetlightmag.com/2019/08/19/comings-and-goings-by-roselyn-elliott-blog-for-august-19-2019/#comment-81446 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:10:08 -0400 You are welcome, Sharon. I’m happy and grateful for your interest and willingness to continue this work.

]]> 442c7339bb08eb0d8258b55aaea3a81f Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26312 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:00:05 -0400 These past two years and three months, since May 2017, have been a special period in my life that I hadn’t expected to experience. During my tenure as poetry editor, it has been my honor to share this labor of l […]

]]> e93a70010a7d10772efc8c937b76ddb2 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25748 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:00:04 -0400 Stuart Gunter is a finalist of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
 

Finish these sentences to express your true feelings:
I always wanted to be intelligent, maybe a college
professor, or a poet. […]

]]> df3b9d80256a4ce589b9c8e547077903 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25744 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:00:05 -0400 Natalia Prusinska is a finalist of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
 

I took the jar of jam sealed with heat and wrapped it in old
towels. I placed it carefully in my suitcase among the […]

]]> 29ca0705bd82817a0f56a150d4292d7d Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25740 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:00:16 -0400 Joanna Lee is a finalist of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
 

We found two dead babies on the back granite slab
that serves as a stoop, the same
we salvaged from up home years ago, decaying
in […]

]]> a39ca6eb738994e9dee019558518b70d Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25736 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:00:01 -0400 Marco Patitucci is a finalist of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
 

We measured small steps
as giant leaps
and never felt sameness,
nameless lunar imposters
dancing over the […]

]]> 6b1f3706ff4f31ea8d51966a23aec958 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25733 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:00:02 -0400 Alina Stefanescu is a finalist of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
 

In my terror-hemmed flesh. The
wince against their raised voices of
desperate sirens, careful guarding
of pulse from […]

]]> f0329f0418143bf8282331d5eed24438 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25353 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:00:57 -0400 AND YOU, DO YOU LOVE TOO?
I said

I think I said

I must have said

don’t cross

did I know

should I have known

did I email, call, text

stay on the sidewalk

he was far away

was h […]

]]> c78bf1d5e0c5547a5a574c56e6800569 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25349 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:00:40 -0400 Brass soldiers line up
and pitch to his tune.
Piano man rules the room.
Hot, not sweet,
the band chases the beat.
Strings of guitars
slice the air into bars
and a velvety sax
swings for a splash
while […]

]]> 7ba5fce0ce84f9975500b8bdd4d4545e Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25345 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:00:12 -0400 As I pass the willow-lined pond,
the wheels on my bike click over new cement cracks
from the toll of winter’s thaw.
How is it that not much has changed?
The arms of the same cedars droop over the same s […]

]]> e8055cb1fa3d3b90fac1922c46f324ca Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25343 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:00:50 -0400 For Steve Gray, in Sarasota
The pine tops burn orange,
loud and strange: a train screaming on
burning tracks into the full moon.
The moon flutes sunlight to my upturned eyes:
I am as unable as the stars to […]

]]> f4db062fcc0bbd0c447ea7361228b6d7 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25261 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:00:30 -0400 Lobster mitts might cushion the ache,
my hands numbed
by these cold, rain-wet stalks. The stakes
tenacious, anchored
in beds slimed here and there with rot.
Cut twine and a vine collapses,
limp as kelp. Tug […]

]]> f47eb95a4bdf8af3c78a345ee877435c Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25258 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:00:16 -0400 The Moth
It would be too simple
to describe its motives
as a flame off course,
a light mistaken for sun.
Loveliness is complicated,
a white body against darkness,
the night’s counterfeit
just beyond a s […]

]]> 3b133f94dce98b76db0c66bbb71fb00c Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25255 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:00:07 -0400 A once resplendent roan
lying on its side, legs flailing,
as if it thought—
as if, in its final moment
it could think at all—
that it was still running,
wild and free.

So disdainful, so hig […]

]]> cbff4e7d5ae42e6fc6d7f76dc480db65 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25162 Fri, 24 May 2019 12:00:42 -0400 Nightfall
There are stories
no one knows.
High summer.

The sound of tree frogs
coming
from all quarters.

 
Infra Dig
You know how when the sky
goes to hell in the west
there’s inevitably a black do […]

]]> d57d3eccc98af7ab80d71cf5cf10af9f Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25158 Fri, 17 May 2019 12:00:18 -0400 It’s hard to see him as a farmer, isn’t it?
Bending over the rows of lettuce and corn,
feeling the ears between his thumb and forefinger,

all the while remembering breadfruit and mango?
It’s hard to see h […]

]]> 2cafd288c6c5643c4160532a172f29df Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25155 Fri, 10 May 2019 12:00:56 -0400 When we lie side-by-side in an afterglow, he says,
I used to be a man of my word. Neither of us wants
to label his intentions, fearful of finding the meaning
in definition. Our fingers come together, […]

]]> eae2b86aa9185102e3b2edb100d540ec Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25600 Fri, 03 May 2019 11:00:30 -0400 Gary Beaumier is the 1st place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
Night Train to Paris
Our aged bodies
surrender to the sway
and lurch of the train
as we have passed through
the long […]

]]> 0e217e1c64780bafb4885e3d00a46c21 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25631 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:00:59 -0400 National Poetry Month Daily Blog with Poem

Revising a draft, for me, means returning to the poem from several perspectives. I might change the speaker from first person to second or third person, or change the […]

]]> 744719c3905235c141467652110ae7c5 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25167 Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:00:43 -0400 It is the reach and sweep
of the horizon
that seduces the eye
the darker folds of clouds
the insinuation
of rose just above the water
a breeze moist and warm
like the touch of first love

a boat […]

]]> 499ebd6d5e4ec06172871c2558977c9b Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25152 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:00:36 -0400 Sunshine at last, & the woodland walks dappled with it.
On a patch-speckled side-path skirting a pond,
an immense tortoise, sunning itself.
Sshh, she said, as if they had been talking too loudly, or at all,
& […]

]]> c94bf56ea43af153bcb52280d0cbf84a Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25070 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:00:46 -0400 My Bride Face
Families from far apart met in Sengen Shrine.

I didn’t know the ritual;
reciting words, in heavy gold
kimono, geisha-face and geta.
I wore a wooden wig.

Later, in ivory and tiara, I sang k […]

]]> 42f8577c480f68692664af42265fd950 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25067 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:00:25 -0400 Sometimes I wonder whether tomatoes feel the slice of my blade,
whether carrots feel ignored as they languish in the fridge.
I plan a pot roast to make them feel useful, then wonder
whether they fear the slow […]

]]> d10e055696c4a46916a92c55e5fe1296 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24498 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:00:41 -0400 CHECK UP OR CHECK OUT

Friday is library day for Ray who picked Friday because it kinda rhymes with library and other days don’t so much and becoming well-read and new worldly is high up on the list in Ray’s […]

]]> 82da4dd06b0a25566d5d8c95fb47b59f Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24502 Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:00:14 -0500 The oranges are all shaved. Rind showing—not undressed or peeled open, mind you, just
stripped for garnish. This is another way of saying you threw a cocktail party—which is another
way of saying you got you […]

]]> f45aa302390f3bf635f15b191a841a31 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24396 Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:00:59 -0500 SPRING CHILL

With the spring day
coursing cool

in the shade,
I turn a street corner

and, struck by sun,
feel

a recollection
start to formulate, not

as an image, or even
as an […]

]]> 332f599a718a45bbbe0e223b8b4876af Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24398 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:00:46 -0500 I call him Fenimore
To remember his species.

Each morning
I walk to the mailbox
And look to see him,
Cased against the cold
In his feather cocoon of wings and trapped air.
He seems less a hawk than
An […]

]]> 0b73acd5f5b0da014f5313d2cd93db87 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24400 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:00:02 -0500 Feeding

The redpolls arrived like Christmas cards
scattered beneath our backyard feeder,
little red seals atop their heads
like wax on parchment.
What might be the medieval message
they brought to the […]

]]> 7f952c0e7dd930bea14bc1f609391142 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24893 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:29:51 -0500 Poetry and publishing: two topics that seem diametrically opposed, if you look at them under the perspective that’s the norm in the USA—that of business, capitalism, popular culture. Shake off that norm, how […]

]]> c6873592f7193db72125b1c8104f1849 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24430 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:00:13 -0500 I have removed my shirt and am kneeling in a pit
looking up at a man pointing a rifle down at me.
Quiet, everything is eerily quiet now, the morning’s
hissed commands and scrape of shovels long gone.
Why w […]

]]> 4283dfd4d4070e4c31bb38c379f94963 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=24394 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:30:43 -0500 After I die,
prop the bones
of a beautiful bird
in my mouth.

Call a medicine woman
back from my home star.
Offer tobacco, cedar, sage, sweet grass,
the seven silent petitions of passage.

For all these […]

]]> 29d8109d11e966dee70bbb106e7485b1 Roselyn Elliott wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=23959 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:30:48 -0500 From Isamu Noguchi to Man Ray, Poston War Relocation Center, May 30, 1942
Here, in the internment camp
in the Arizona desert
our preoccupations have shrunk
to a minimum—
the intense dry heat,
afternoon d […]

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