By Chinelo Synclaire The journey home felt insufferably long. I sat by the window inside the bus examining the landscape and the buildings, trying hard to suppress my anger each time the driver stopped to pick a new passenger. My school bag sat huddled between my legs and inside it was the A4 paper that … Continue reading The Last Day I Saw Mother
Little bird, flying high
By Tim Law Little bird, flying high I see you above me and wonder why? Why is it that you don’t go above? To the place beyond the clouds, filled with people we love Little bird, I pray you do Fly down to me, hear my message for you The words which I need desperately … Continue reading Little bird, flying high
For Mami
By Kaitlyn Byer moth·er noun a woman in relation to her child or children. verb bring up (a child) with care and affection. For Mami: I always loved your light bronze skin with hints of olive. I remembered it being soft as snow, as if the concept of aging simply never applied to you. Your … Continue reading For Mami
The Friend
By Sharon Farnsworth And the race begins. Another Friday afternoon, and city traffic was horrific. I picked up my son from daycare and joined the throng of manic drivers, my thoughts racing faster than the traffic was moving. Forty plus hours as a Probation Officer, and I was on overload. The windshield wipers whacking the glass in a … Continue reading The Friend
The Lamentation of a Mother
By Indunil Madhusankha (Previously published in the 2016 October issue of the Synesthesia Literary Journal on 8th of July 2016) “Amma, when I come the next time, prepare me some Welithalapa.” Saying thus you left for work But all of a sudden like one of your most remarkable surprises You came … Continue reading The Lamentation of a Mother
Academy of the Heart And Mind 