By Olivia Brochu I am holding two boxes of cereal, letting my three-year-old pick his favorite, while my one-year-old throws his pacifier to the ground and my five-year-old has already moved ahead to the granola bars and pop tarts. My white T-shirt is French tucked into my high waisted, light wash jeans. My unreasonably long … Continue reading The Grocery Store
My Sweatshirt In Lost Time: A Memoir
By David R. Topper One might say – looking back figuratively – that my sweatshirt had Proust written all over it. Is this worth pursuing? Depends. Let’s see. It came about when I remembered this almost sixty-year-old episode in my life. I was in Pittsburgh, my hometown. It was 1964, a late-summer evening. My close … Continue reading My Sweatshirt In Lost Time: A Memoir
Griffin’s Lecture
By Andrew Nickerson The lecture hall of Meade Academy of Magic buzzed with anticipation as students settled behind the room’s many layered desks. As the smells of various cafeteria lunch/drink specials floated all around, merging with the antiquated orders of wood and stone, everyone anxiously awaited the arrival of their special guest: Professor G. Griffin, … Continue reading Griffin’s Lecture
The Puma That She Met One Day
By Frances Gaudiano Lucy was standing at the edge of the field. It hadn’t been tilled recently and there was still stalks of growth left from previous years, dry and battered in the morning breeze. She began to walk along a narrow footpath between the weeds. After a bit, she felt a presence behind her … Continue reading The Puma That She Met One Day
The alphabet of nature And Other Poems
By Domina Petric The alphabet of nature Agate caught the rainbow in its memory. Beryl hid its heart at the bottom of a lake. Carnelian is as sweet as honey. Citrine is the sun that illuminates Earth at noon. Charoite is a picture of a stormy sky and a setting sun. The winter landscape is … Continue reading The alphabet of nature And Other Poems
Patterns
By S.F. Wright Wednesday evening Almost over; Then Thursday, And Friday. The weekend’s Booze Seems like A faraway Oasis; Yet it will Come, go, Disappoint. Then Tired Sunday, Monday; And the oasis Appears Again. S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey. His work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, and Elm Leaves Journal, … Continue reading Patterns
Wasted Cut Out Flowers and Other Poems
By Richard LeDue Wasted Cut Out Flowers Lucky to have a blank page again, staring at me with more affection than the lovers who don't know they're lovers, who only wake up naked in their dreams, who usually let the silence buy their drinks, who reminisce about paper airplanes crash landing, only to give flight … Continue reading Wasted Cut Out Flowers and Other Poems
They Don’t Talk Much Anymore
By Ed Ahern Their intimacy speaks in the unsaid. opposition unraised, disagreement stilled, stifled correction or contradiction, permission for those close to rest in the wrong while choke-chaining the harsher truths. Little silent helping things saying that courtesy is an inadequate term to explain the need to hold one another in loving stasis. Ed Ahern … Continue reading They Don’t Talk Much Anymore
Rose Garden Refuge
By Sarah Brennan I remained on the bench until it was no longer cold, long after my breathing regained its normal rhythms, and my tears had stopped flowing. Around me the garden was calm and quiet, but my mind still raced. I kept replaying the three days in March when my world changed. The teachers … Continue reading Rose Garden Refuge
The Time Was Right and Other Poems
By Ken Gosse The Time Was Right a pastiche on Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” He’ll rage against the dying of my light but old age took its toll along the way. He doesn’t know I think the time is right. Much wiser than he knows, I welcome night. … Continue reading The Time Was Right and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 