Lauper *** Panik Collective Dancing About Architecture by Matt Kennedy The quote “Dancing About Architecture” has been attributed to Laurie Anderson, Steve Martin, Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, Elvis Costello, Thelonius Monk, Clara Schumann, Miles Davis, George...
WALMART The knuckled trailer park rests in topsy repose on a plinth of ledge beside paltry little Windham Airport whose main function is flying people up so they can skydive down, and where every now and then at dusk a Cessna’s vesper whispers across the wide sky...
PLANTING A SEED (For many people) In the back room with Van Morrison. In the back room. In the back of the back room with Duckett & Beaz, back somewhere below purple azaleas, on our backs & on the back of a B&O retiree’s gold-plated swan song....
Parker Gibbs photo. Unsplash *** Wheels of MisFortune and other fleeting thoughts I broke up with the woman who traveled back with me in our time machine because I just don’t see a future together./ When I was a teenager, my parents forced me into “gay...
Joris Voeten photo, Unsplash *** When Teaching Was Fun by Dr. Sue Atkinson We gather around Maria’s campfire, under a summer night sky punctuated by stars and fireflies, with a hint of the coming fall in the air. We do this every year. Most of us are teachers,...
Queen Kong by Amanda J. Bradley 88 Pages, 7 x 10 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017930503 ISBN: 978-1-63045-038-0 Anticipated Publication Date: April 24,, 2017 Cover Illustration by Mikayla Lewis by Emily Vogel, Poetry Editor Much of classic feminist theory...
Jez Timms, Unsplash *** THE LADY OF THE LAMP by Linda C. Wisniewski Helen stood squarely before the garish old lamp in her living room. “You’re Ed’s, not mine. Never mine. And after today, I will never have to look at you again.” She carried her morning coffee...
Jeanne Mackin photo Steve Poleskie and his screen prints at the American Center in Belgrade, June 1981 *** A Cold War Warrior by Stephen Poleskie There has been a lot of comment in the news lately about Russia and its leader. This got me thinking about my...
HERON: MONTEREY WHARF, CALIFORNIA Heron, hunchbacked, Drab chapel-grey, Bedraggled loner, Still as a statue On guard, staring Away and stood In a calmness Perfected since birth. What is a moment In unbothered composure? The ridiculous legs, The ungainly posture, The...
Callum MacAulay photo, unsplash. com *** At Play in the Fields of Deep Reading: March Poetry Madness by Dr. Carol Mikoda “Did this guy write any other poems?” “I sure wish the Frost poem had made it to the finals.” “Did you count...
Photo by PeteLinforth (Pixabay) *** GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS by Jim Palombo The partnership of the Conservative agenda and Donald Trump is on. And the alliance, holy or otherwise, can be confusing. After all neither political nor individual behavior...
Yingpis Kalayom, Unsplash *** THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE YELLOW by Mark Levy As I sit in the dental chair patiently allowing my dental hygienist, whose name is Julie, to clean my chompers, I start to think that I’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and money on my...
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