Istanbul Literary Review - 3rd Year Anniversary Edition (#12)
Istanbul Literary Review - 3rd Year Anniversary Edition (#12)
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Oh, Ravishingly
by
Oliver Rice

Throughout the millennia
    during which it was inciting
        homo habilis, homo erectus,
            and homo sapiens to survive,

it was ravishingly inducing
    every species along the Amazon,
        on the islands of the Mediterranean,
            in Oceania and the Arctic to evolve.

                And still is.

Istanbul Literary Review - 3rd Year Anniversary Edition (#12)
Oliver Rice
Oliver Rice
USA
Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and was twice featured on Poetry Daily . His poems appear in three recent anthologies: Ohio Review™s New and Selected, Bedford/St. Martin™s Introduction to Literature, and Random House/Billy Collins™ 180 More, also available on a Library of Congress Web site.
Istanbul Literary Review - 3rd Year Anniversary Edition (#12)