By: Brandon McQuade The Aquarium Because the car is in the shop, we walk in dead heattrusting GPS, until the aquarium shows itself. It appears to us like the sea on the […]
‘The Aquarium’ and other poems by Brandon McQuade
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What Grandma Said
By: James Bates The last time I saw my Grandmother Sara I’d wheeled her down to the community room of Meridian Way, the retirement home where she’d been living for the last […]
Travels with a Barbarian: Onto Raglan Crag
By: The Birch Twins When finally we arrived after a breathless climb over wet grass, it was a miserable place drenched by constant drizzling rain that made the grass slippery and the […]
Enlivening Your Inner Serpent Power
By William T. Hathaway Slumbering deep within you lies a serpent named Bhujagendra coiled 3 1/2 times around the sacral bone at the base of your spine in Muladhara chakra, your inner […]
Accursed
By: Chandra Shekhar Dubey I was lying with hernaked and panting with moanssoft and supple. . Far above the moon was strugglingto cuddle the wanton clouds. . A shudder in my loins […]
‘Humanity’s Best, Shown From Within The Rainbow’ and other poems by Linda Imbler
By: Linda Imbler Humanity’s Best, Shown From Within The Rainbow Neutrality, a green light,saying go, to your reflective mind.Refuse to take quick part in divided views.Roll things around in your head first,looking […]
The Fire Eater
By: Ann Christine Tabaka The forests were burning, and nothing could be done to stop it. All hope seemed lost. Day turned into night as thick black clouds of smoke blocked out […]
What we can see
By: CJ Delous From fetus to a handful of ashes; a brief flicker of light in the darkness;the thread of our existence,helplessly passing from past to future; contingent filaments entwinedwithin the infinite: […]
The Real HarMar Superstar
By: Zach Murphy Semisonic’s melancholy anthem “Closing Time” plays while Steve finishes up his last night as a security guard at HarMar Mall. This is almost too good to be true, he […]
The Bookstore
By Mark Kodama I. I own a used bookstore off of Hollywood Blvd. It is not much to look at but it is mine. There always seems to be customers in […]
