By Jake Sheff I Trust Your Highness Will Excuse my Being Opal Creek “Do a similarity of paths in life and a similarity of situations give rise to a similarity in characters? As a general thing it doesn’t. For people with strong minds and spirits of their own it does not. They have their own … Continue reading I Trust Your Highness Will Excuse My Being Opal Creek and Other Poems
The Nightmare in the Sky
By Frank Kowal Billy’s mother was struggling to catch her breath. She had just dodged four lanes of fast-moving city traffic and was now holding onto an old public phone across the street from her building. But because a growing crowd was staring at her—she was wearing a bare-shouldered, sparkling red, floor-length evening gown—she kept … Continue reading The Nightmare in the Sky
Look Up and Other Poems
By Glory Cumbow Look Up Oh, please, please look up. I know the consuming temptation to lock eyes arrow-straight ahead refusing the risk of averting your gaze elsewhere and accepting the landscape immediately before you as the only possible reality. Oh, but please, please look up. Within the strict parameters of frontward vision that neglects … Continue reading Look Up and Other Poems
Sold-out Dreams and Other Poems
By Richard LeDue Sold-out Dreams Past tense, meaning they're already gone, just barren shelves, pretending to feed desires we believe more in than any god, translated into every language, but we need to understand the translator has to eat too. And when there's nothing left inside the cardboard boxes, we'll still reach in, asking where … Continue reading Sold-out Dreams and Other Poems
The Eden Project
By Stephen Kingsnorth As a tourist board inspector, the closing hour approaching fast, pottering in the garden centre, I saw another in the crowd - God wandering amongst the shades. At gate closure, the lock-up time, I saw her in the coffee shop, chatting with the sweat-cooking staff, those table-waiting, poorly paid, dependant on … Continue reading The Eden Project
Patriotic and Other Photographs
By Pat St. Pierre
When He Was Three
By C. Toto Zaremba We build princess castles Made of sand or of clay. Magic on the kitchen table As grandson and nonni play. Imagination sets the background, Laughter fills the stage, Nothing else matters, Its such a wonderful age.
Not Here
By C. Toto Zaremba We used to walk here together. We wondered who the people were And who they left behind. We knew them only as names on stones. We knew they were no longer here. Your name is not on a stone. You would never sit here quietly. I don't come here to visit … Continue reading Not Here
Speech Acts: Another Lesson in Chinese Characters and Other Poems
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
Academy of the Heart And Mind 