By: Kathryn Holeton Echoing Water Frogs croaking away,A cacophony of gold,Echoing water. Waving Singing cattails stand,their roots entrenched in thick mud-waving in water. Natural Spotlight Sunlight beaming down,down on common people-natural spotlight. River Under a Red Sun A sea of…
By: Goutam Roy Old sunken worldbeneath the Java Sea—a vanished landscapewhere giant creatures once roamed,a realm of survival,mystery, and time.The shallow seabedbetween the islandsseemed empty at first;but beneath its silt,the buried past awakened—fossils of ancient creatures,sleeping for a million years,silent…
By: Christopher Johnson To Ulee Newman, his grandmother’s Victorian house was a place of comfort and safety and marvels and magic, all in one. Grandmother Hanson, her name was—his father’s mother, and she lived about a mile from his house—or,…
By: James Aitchison I hear a murderer singing, and varied croaks I hear:Those of mad goblins, each one singing his as it should be cracked and crazed,The carpenter singing as he measures his coffin wood,The madman singing in the depths…
By: Carl Papa Palmer They meet every morning, Chuck and Mac, 8am for coffee,twenty five cents a cup though everybody else pays a dollar. Dolly knows they’ll be here two hours. Each has their usual:grits, two eggs over easy, wheat…
By: Tamoghna Mukherjee Epiphany God is God because it reciprocates ourverbose prayers with silent oblivion.How closely we search for meaning inreminiscence, how assiduous our effortsare in eliciting metaphors from memory—but, you see, here, no action becomesmusic anymore, no scribbling incantation….
By: Ananya S Guha The hill town is nowA ‘ city ‘, screeching, honkingCars, upgrade it to a cityBut the hills remain indifferentWinter or summer, they areWitnesses to primordial timesThey are witnesses to thunderousRain claps, they are witnesses toDeserted roads,…
By Thomas Sanfilip To draw inspiration from a poet like Guillame Apollinaire—one of the foremost French poets of the early 20th century and who died over a hundred years ago—and to translate his work for a modern audience today is…
By: Mary Bone Wild Sage While walking to schoolI saw wild sagein an open pasture.A sweet aroma was floating aboutSage has an earthy flavor in food.It’s aroma therapy at its best. Pirates Cove A winding creekin a bamboo forest.There was…
By: Ethan Goffma Son: Father, our black cat is invisible at night and so an excellent hunter. Yet he has a white spot that can give away his position as he lies hiding, waiting to pounce. Is there some biological…