Grace Elena Woods And so, the demon arises… The light casting shadows Everywhere. My bruised and healing heart, So wary. Ah demon, my old friend, I knew you would come again. Sitting on my shoulder, whispering all your warnings, Speaking all your doubts,...
Laura Io Berg Let us be fruitful for one another In our loving bower, pomegranate, cleft, stains our swollen lips, strawberries sacrifice themselves, apricots blush, dates quiver & apples dance. In tongues’ wandering greeting, we become complicit with the...
Sipra Roy The entire creation of earth, both animate and inanimate, flow in harmony with Nature, except the human species. Other than humans, all accept its different seasons both rough and friendly. In the rainy season plants grow lush green leaves but shed them in...
Rebecca Jo Dakota It’s stuck. This thing in my nervous system. Somewhere I can’t even see it. It bothers me every day, this old feeling of striving, of “not good enough.” Can I nudge it out to daylight? It’s in some pipe underground, or something, covered, in the...
Janice Alper August 1985 My brother called. He never called, so I knew it was serious. “Mom’s not doing well, you’d better come.” I hastily packed a small suitcase, left my four kids, my husband, my job, and flew from California to New York. When I walked into...
