Troubled Window A poem by Diane Elayne Dees Troubled Window When my home alarm beeped, I saw a message—my problem, it said, was “troubled window.” The concept of a troubled window was new to me, but the glass— a bay window—is,... Continue Reading →
Balancing Whims A poem by L. Lois Balancing Whims my father was an accountant he ran his life by the book statistical odds and calculation ruled decisions fun a by-product remainder we consumed by logic were controlled through precision but,... Continue Reading →
Apart from everything we were the same A poem by Jack Caradoc Apart from everything we were the same She was mostly cornflakes with a side order of pikelets. I was all scrambled eggs and buttered rye-bread toast. We were... Continue Reading →
Tahrish A poem by Vaishnavi Pusapati Tahrish Imagine tambourines, imagine flowers blooming on cacti, imagine a party of women gathering in the desert, imagine the fragrance of a feast dispersing into the desert wind, to celebrate a woman’s divorce, to... Continue Reading →
Why do we write? A poem by Elias Lowe Why do we write?is it not a persistent reachingthe asking of the only questionas infinite as it is brief?it looks a myriad of ways:a pile of rocks that stack and stackan... Continue Reading →
The Pioneering SpiritA poem by John Grey The Pioneering Spirit Go west, young man and woman! Not exactly. We stayed east. But we were pioneers, apartment block for wagon train, our prairie schooner, two cramped rooms with mismatched furniture, half... Continue Reading →
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