By Olatubosun David That season when no rain falls Sky underlines blue heaven Searing sun dries the puddles On the farm roads The misty breeze blows In the morning The hills, the […]
Poem: Season Sensation
Five Translated Poems of Chinese Poet Yuan Hongri
By Chinese Poet Yuan HongriTranslated by Manu Mangattu The Outer Music In dreams the gods told me that the world is a dreamland So I forgot the honor and disgrace of life, […]
Poem: Three kinds of insects
By: Pawel Markiewicz mysterious mystic mythical merry-ladybug you are melancholy like little wolf loving Little Red Riding Hood in the pond of the muses feelings You are a lily of eternity which can […]
Story: Elena
By: Karl Miller Prologue – Jibacoa, Cuba: July 4, 1868 In the darkness behind a large, white, two-story mansion just outside the small fishing village of Jibacoa, three rows of twenty balloons […]
Poem: traveling on the angel wing
By: Amirah Al- Wassif traveling on the right wing of an angeltake me away, away to my first dancedragging ourselves through the fancy castleshakes me today, today as it is my chanceoh! how […]
‘The Ghosts of the Battlefield’ and other poems by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
By: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal The Ghosts of the Battlefield The ghosts of the battlefield wear their uniforms and their bracelets, walk with their bullet riddled bodies. A dog can sense a spirit or […]
Who’s Afraid of Pathetic Fallacy? Ted Kooser Meets Walt Disney
By: Don Thompson 1. Deep in the weeds of volume three of Modern Painters (in Part IV and Chapter XII), John Ruskin has included an essay under the title, “Of The Pathetic Fallacy”. […]
Story: In Spitting Distance
By: Patricia Black-Gould “You only spit on the boys you like,” said Nancy. “Spit?” I didn’t understand. “Yeah. My cousin Renee says if you like a guy, you spit on him.” Renee just […]
Poem: Empty
By: Joe Barca There’s a certain heartbreak in clothesthat lay folded too neatly, in a wardrobethat’s missing an owner, in a ghost thatinhabits a closet. He lives in a home that is wounded. […]
Story: The Undertaker’s Apprentice
By: Brooksie C. Fontaine The young woman had an unfortunate pageboy haircut that didn’t at all flatter her rotund face, somewhat emphasized by her slightly bloated skin. The pale, ashen clay of […]
