GRASP have you forgotten the terms of this pact, the lines we once lifted from songs that remind me of bells and stems, a collection of waves, a kill, a cure, a whim made permanent, arcane did we ever lie close in the black of a room belonging to no-one, switched like breakers curved to […]
Colin Morton | JUNIOR DICTIONARY
JUNIOR DICTIONARY Blog, broadband, voicemail, chatroom. How plugged-in the new dictionary is, how clean. No more need for words like beaver, boar, bullock, cheetah, colt, nor even gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster. Too much mess. When our children learn to cut and paste they do it cleanly with a mouse or better, a practised swipe […]
Mary Catherine Shea | LA FONTAINE
LA FONTAINE Leaves scud / sift / through parc at cross-posts, / like and dissimilar trying to come together. / Through incongruous sight, maybe. / I remembered you at the edge of the intersection, / remarking on passers-by: / a bare shoulder in November. / Wind in broken branches. / Clouds piercing the 90 degree […]
Mark Grenon | SAY HELLO TO CONNECTED LIVING
SAY HELLO TO CONNECTED LIVING They say it’s all connected. Departed. Departing. <Unborn> NB: your connection’s now the government. Rise, make connections with fellow bloggers, photographers, YouTubers and social influencers! #BREAKING: 51-year-old man charged with felony arson in connection with 9,600-acre #HolyFire A specific function for the zona incerta has not been determined but it […]
Margaret Hanshaw | OTHERWORLD
OTHERWORLD wish that I were a field, late summer wish that I were a woman picking up a fallen nest, carrying it home in the fold of her dress wish that I were the bird, outside her window the perfect ease of it, not held, not […]
Mike Ferguson | DISCONNECT
DISCONNECT don’t adjoin me ……………………………………….no soupçon of infecting ………affection ……………..……………..……………..……no brush of a feather’s dust if it is the diffidence ………of a possible lie if it is the difference ……………..……………..of uncertainty ……………..……………..of unknowing ……………..……………..of unusualness ……………..……………..……………..……………..then a touch to test is good enough there can’t be ill ………..or illness …………………..in trying but don’t try to […]
Andrea Schwenke Wyile | CONVERSATIONAL CUL-DE-SAC
CONVERSATIONAL CUL-DE-SAC You say discussion is a two-way street but the road is rough — my way is impeded — Halted Blocked …..by familiar signs STOP Wrong Way Yield No Passing Detour HERE […]
Meg Freer | SEEKING BALANCE
SEEKING BALANCE Locked in the psychiatric ward the patients may or may not see Christmas lights this year, or get to brush their hair, but one has seen stigmata on her toes. She says alien life forms drew wavy brown lines on broccoli stems in her lunch left on the floor of her room where […]
MA|DE | PITCHDOWN BAY
PITCHDOWN BAY the small sound of a falling snowflake, slow it down, low frequency rumble of a whale, both melting into the ocean in time, the water glowing as bright as lanterns, and sailors drowning as if they’d seen lighthouses, more lost men entering from the shore’s mouth, that emptiness between the stars, pupils compensating […]