By Yuan Changming Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters 说 /shuo/: to say is to make an exchange in words 语 /yu/: language is defined in terms of what I say 课 /ke/: a lesson should be learned by talking about the result 谎 /huang/: to lie is to throw a remark from … Continue reading Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters and Other Poems
After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we … Continue reading After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
Uriel Fox and the Doomsday Prophesy
By John F. Zurn Uriel Fox often wandered through any number of forests between his visits to civilization. An expert explorer, he might spend several weeks in areas near the highway before returning to the open road. He almost never lost his way or encountered any situation he couldn’t manage. However, once in the middle … Continue reading Uriel Fox and the Doomsday Prophesy
World Away and Other Poems
By Allison Grayhurst World Away World away of hollows where light escapes, gets through, flourishes in the sluggish dream of humans. World of many layers – up to pure communion and down with the languishing un-animal beasts. Rivers that flow and merge, travel down. Oceans rise up, their surfaces new, surfaces discovered – air, sometimes … Continue reading World Away and Other Poems
Mr. Bear and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Mr. Bear Mr. Teddy Bear He is big and soft and good Much more than a toy Treasure Treasure this moment Express gratitude The Present moment The profound gift Of life In spite of the bleakness That characterizes modernity Reality reveals That there is so much beauty In the world … Continue reading Mr. Bear and Other Poems
Changeling II and Other Poems
By C.G. Nelson Changeling II There is a shift in me— One I can hardly explain. I’m a different person Than I used to be. I don’t know What to tell you. How can I tell you Anything when I don’t even know The how or why or Even the when Of the thing. … Continue reading Changeling II and Other Poems
Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
By Vishnu B. Unnithan Brewing Success from Disaster I should be excited, like waiting to meet my lover, since each day presents opportunities galore. However, anxiety is my daily chore. It rattles me to the core. I analyse, plan and think some more. I should be sparkling with anticipation, like waiting to meet … Continue reading Brewing Success From Disaster and Other Poems
Words
By Deeksha Makhija I wonder what happens to words when they are left unread all their lives? Do they sob in tears while remembering the tears of their creators? Do they talk? What happens to all those books that are kept at the end of a room full of books' stacks? Do they smell … Continue reading Words
What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
What Do Poets Do what do poets do when they rise up in the light of morning from the floor of the sanctuary of illusion and wipe with a coat sleeve an open wound from which the life of history drains and shake the sweat of saturation from behind a brow, a paper wall when … Continue reading What Poets Do and Solstice Part 1
Why I Write
By Alex Andy Phuong Why do people write? What is the point of worrying about events, places, and characters created through the human imagination? They are not even real! Some people major in English while in college because they are bookworms. Sometimes they could be very similar to Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and … Continue reading Why I Write
Academy of the Heart And Mind 