By Jay M. Love is fluid, Flows by bliss, Ends at will, May the songs herald, Raging against the light, Was a knight so called, A maidens call - Into the night we go, Armed and calling, To perish, In a stumble, Oh! For the truth should have, Set us free! Fair betrayal, A … Continue reading End of Days
Alphabets: Tau
By Thomas Page There’s something comfortable in what the Modernist hated— The risk of routine settling fauve motions into mechanics-- That define the human part of the spirit The need for consistency in each experienced sunrise That sets the stage for the actions most desired by the critics The permanent fourth wall that looks at … Continue reading Alphabets: Tau
Poems by Gloria Buckley
I AM THE RAIN I am the rain That drips down my palms And nourishes the trees The flower, the dirt I am the mud that soaks up All the water And I am the well And the drink I swallow From the rain that flowed Into the well Which was the water That soaked … Continue reading Poems by Gloria Buckley
Poems by Kersten Christianson
Another Day of Rain The stack of poems on the desk builds, like clouds gathering where sea shakes sky’s hand. Words rainfall, arrange by line, sound, patter the windows, water the raspberries. I open the door, welcome the through-traveler storm. Mega Ship When the Ovation of the Seas docked in Sitka, we … Continue reading Poems by Kersten Christianson
High School Contest Third Place Winner Fiction: “90 Day Ghost”
by Sarah Boyt Alyona knows not where she is going nor what she is doing. All she knows is that is must get away. She must get away from it all: the barn with the tacky halloween decorations, her fiance’s so called friends that call her a gold digger and tell her to go back … Continue reading High School Contest Third Place Winner Fiction: “90 Day Ghost”
Two Poems by Guna Moran
Both poems are translated from the Assamese by Bibekananda Choudhury "The Third Day" She is sitting to partake a meal Pushing aside pangs of sorrow No one dies of sorrow Hunger remains Till one is alive Death gets dwarfed by hunger "Eye" Life would depart Leaving the body lying on earth Someone would cry … Continue reading Two Poems by Guna Moran
“Embrace the Day”
By Andrew Scott May have cried a bit this morning, wet eyes, a reminder to embrace the day. It could be gone before tomorrow. We have the chance to effect and change the outlook of ours and others through a positive touch and smile. Breath in the fresh, crisp air and appreciate that it is … Continue reading “Embrace the Day”
“Jane Doe #503”
By Laura Potts Yes. Back then, I was child of a garden and pavement end. When homestead old was forest and fire, and high were the gold robes of fields which rose to my run, some say I tore up the moors. On that cold morning and grey, before day burst down a valley … Continue reading “Jane Doe #503”
Poems by James Diaz
Strange Bliss The holy broken turns its face in the half-light again - what's your name again who gave this to you, so much pain I see it there writ on the lines of your face how long's it been since you last stepped outside the shadow of all the stuff that doesn't belong to … Continue reading Poems by James Diaz
Academy of the Heart And Mind 