Fourteen by Morgan Rae Glazier During a Sunday drive, our mother stopped our white Dodge Spirit at the base of the Harrisville hills. She snatched a chisel and hammer, from the Spirit’s storage, and said, wait here girls. For thirty minutes, my sister and I stared out the car window, our mother carving her and…
Month: May 2012
echoes of love by Earl Moore
Lunch Break, Kansas by Devin Harrison
Lunch Break, Kansas by Devin Harrison The children dip midday under broad-armed elms by the edge of the lake cup their hands in water send schools of marbled green glass minnows shuttering through the shallows we have just come off an endless summer road, stopped for play after miles of wheat and Milo and dust…
The Blues by Amit Parmessur
The Blues by Amit Parmessur Around blue, white oceans, in a blue and black house dwells a black speck. So black, so blue black alive, emotionally blue. Sometimes like a fresh road, after the rain, spellbinding every periwinkle and sometimes imitating a baffled bluebird he has had the blues so, so often that he…
IV. Dr. Prakash Kumar
Spider by John Wright
Spider by John Wright This overcast morning leaf and lawn are drenched in dew-soaked air. My window frames a filigree masterpiece of lilli-pilli pollen buds and scribbling eucalypts. I watch a bulbous spider beige as paper-bark, build her web busily embroidering a white St Andrew’s Cross oblivious to the beauty of all she is. She…