By Gemma White Transpacific Correspondence Across the pond our letters flew yours on fluoro yellow, lined, margined fool scrap mine on cartoon cat-themed writing paper that I’d somehow kept since I was 12. We’d used all methods of correspondence. Chatting over the net, email and recently that surreal international phone call so unexpected after 5 … Continue reading Transpacific Correspondence and Other Poems
The Pickle Jar and Other Poems
By John T. Walsh Jr. The Pickle Jar There was a jar without a label on a mantle on the wall Care was always taken to insure it didn’t fall…. Gramp said it held treasures that I couldn’t see at all That night he pulled the sofa out with a night-light in the hall “Lie … Continue reading The Pickle Jar and Other Poems
When You Are Gone, You Are Not Gone
By Tabassum Tahmina Shagufta Hussein Those who say about thee with words of despair, Merely weave walls of words- You are not insane, Oh my love, Talk to me for a while and bless my heart at times, With your pain. Sit with me, feel the gentle breeze, Can you listen to the sound of … Continue reading When You Are Gone, You Are Not Gone
When I am Stripped of Your Charms
By Wafula p'Khisa Sometimes I wake up and look at my bedside To gaze at you-- breathing softly as if you hold nothing against the world I stretch my hands to feel the warmth & softness of your skin But you grow wings and fly, evading my grasp, like dreams I desperately chase herein The … Continue reading When I am Stripped of Your Charms
“WHEN COWS FLEW”
By John Grey Tornado's been through. Time to make what from whatever. See what fell enough to need to be taken down. Or to admire the still standing structures. say hosannas to unknown architects. Once again it's hammered home that the earth has weather and we're left with the rest. And it's arbitrary. Maybe that's … Continue reading “WHEN COWS FLEW”
Academy of the Heart And Mind 