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Fearful Symmetry
/Some part of our soul…
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… words that in combination resonant with mysterious implication. They are the last two words of the first verse of a poem by William Blake, The Tyger. I first read this poem in high…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Rules Of...
/…waved the next customer into the barber chair. He started as he always did, covering the customer with the barber’s cape, and asking what hair-cut and style they would like. Having selected the correct guard for the clippers and grabbing the scissors…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreGood Friends
/A spiritual man struggling…
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…itemized lists in his hands, he moved slowly up and down the shelves of the St. Louis Mercantile next to the St. Louis cemetery. Cemeteries in Louisiana are very much a fabric of Louisiana culture…
By The Barefoot Cajun
Read MoreMan Of God
/…thinks he and his wife are having marital problems, and that it seems his wife is seeing an ex-lover. One pupil in his class once told her parents he kissed her on her lips, an affair that boiled for days and refused to cool. And now there's a complaint that he caressed the…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreThe Latent Ailment
/…of those days bestirs my imagination. I know it is dead but...", Oliver said looking at the patterns engraved on the roof of Notre Dame. "Those arches, I know, are integral for its…
By Aadityaamlan Panda
Read MoreSleet
/…wet is falling from the sky. It’s an unsettled wetness that can’t make-up it’s mind. Should it be snow or rain? It shifts by fits and turns. Now sleet, then snow, then rain again. By afternoon it decides to be snow, though not a resolute snow. It lingers on the tree-branches but melts on the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHe Cared And Won
/A man reflects on how fortune…
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…when he awoke from the daze of his youth.
Those fickle wasted years, unguided and no support
Held loosely by whim and…
By DJ Elton
Read MoreSmooth Failing
/…succeeds without failing,
perhaps it’s perception that’s ailing.
A path may look glossed
but each life is storm…
By Ken Gosse
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