By: Mark Kodama It was the summer of 1876. The great white father was demanding that we sell our land to them – land that was not ours to sell – and then move to the reservation – where only…

By Alan Berger In the middle of the night At the tail end of another tales thought flight I remembered I line That made me give back all the lines of advices I ever had bought “If you are scared…

By Michael Mogel An ancient rhythm a ritual that defies time like dancing the Argentine Tango. A frozen face like a mask hiding the fear of death. The touch of another invading a stream of movement. The tune is always…

By: Carl Parsons A Late Quartet of Beethoven Old men were playing a late quartet of Beethoven and resonant wood throbbed in ancient hands and skeletal fingers rubbed the music’s body like a lover like a magician of death and…

By: Ronald Primeau Visits and Other Passages by Carol Smallwood, Marquis Lifetime Achievement AwardWinner. Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2019. 115 pages, $18.99. In her latest of over sixty books,the prolific Carol Smallwood serves up a feast of genres in…

By: Ruth Z. Deming HERDSMEN STICK TOGETHER Chillingly cold I stand at front door at midnight my forehead seeming to freeze Clouds like huge grey curls roil about the sky in silent vengeance All of us herdsmen on our street…

By: Alan Berger I had the top bunk in jail. It wasn’t lonely at the top, or at the bottom in any of the bunks in dorm A. One of the most emotional sightings I had was in the first…

By: Linnea Cooley The Little League Game  At the little league game, when a man (a parent from the opposing team)  stands with his fingers curled through the chain link fence and sees me at bat (head too big for…

By: John Grey A COUPLE We’re a couple. There’s been this path from you and me to us that we both willingly took. Now nothing is one us or the other. We’ve joined up. I lead. You follow. You lead….

By: Stacey Z Lawrence FINAL EDIT for Jamal Khashoggi She waits down the street from the Mövenpick Istanbulis love cinema as foreigners carve and slice him first into slabs, then manageable portions. Hard men clad in blue denim, Italian loafers…