Janet Butler, after spending many years in central Italy, where she developed a passion for watercolors and poetry, relocated to the Bay Area, California. She currently teaches TESL and Italian in San Francisco, balancing her passion for watercolors and poetry with walks with Fulmi, a beautiful abandoned Springer Spaniel/English Setter mix she brought back with her from Italy.
Among recent publications are Literary Mary, Sage Trail, Rattlesnake Review, ken*again, and Poet‘s Ink. Future publications include The 13th Warrior, Plainsongs, and Yellow Mama. “Eden Fables” was published as an online chapbook by Language & Culture, 2007, Collection: Ekphrastic Poems by Robert Schuler and Janet Butler was published (by invitation of the editor) by Canvas Press Collection Series, 2007, and “Shadowline” by Gatto Publishing, Scotland (2007) as an eBook.
Summer 2009
Table of Contents - Vol. V, No. 2
Poetry Essays Translations Fiction
Janet Butler
Rains mist a gray day
and vapors seep
from dark worlds
within.
They breathe thin ghosts
from nether places,
their chaotic dins dulled
by hard strokes of rain
beating swollen streets to submission.
The lightest breath of burnt things
heats the air.
Life flows on, unaware
of shadows, gathering,
waiting there.
© Janet Butler
