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A Celebration of Cycles

A Pilgrim’s TaleOur space is reshaping.The process is pronouncedin rambling rites of this mountainof fire and ash; of granite and flux. Sullen hour and we...

Two Poems

Bumebenjonson: Hey Lady I could have been your lover and you know it, Mama always said that I’m handsome ...

NIGHT ADDICT

For months following the death of his father, the boy did not sleep. Not a single wink for a single hour, every day, every...

On the Twenty-Third Floor

a speckle of duston my window has just disappeared in a cloud

Examination

It was two p.m. on a weekday, and she was in the city, in leather shoes that pinched, a hot polyester acrylic blend blouse...

My Mother’s Skirts

After my mother died, I decided to gather twine from her frayed skirts and braid them into wreaths. I discovered that each skirt had...

Killing Trees Softly

They were killing us softly it hurt so bad.  Softly, slowly, exceedingly painful. Think of an open wound left to rot under the sun. Dust and...

I Read Your Name: A War Requiem

I read your nameWritten on a wounded treeBarely standing on the lakeshoreI gaze at the sadness of its former shadowThat remains in the memory...

Three Baggies, One for Each of Us

“Did you get it?” Tobi asked, though he already knew the answer just by the look on Jimwel’s face. “Three baggies, one for each of...

SUPPER AT EMMAUS

In Harmony with Caravaggio Imagine their disbelief: these two men,perhaps fishermen like most of the twelve,beholding the stranger do the familiarblessing, the breaking of bread.One...