Experiencing Satie...
/…Christmas and New Year’s Eve I return to Satie’s music to understand my short Parisian stay and what happened in front of that flaming stove two days after André…
By Fadi Abu-Deeb
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Hope Replete
/Stars fall from the heavens
Meteors ‘cross night skies
Though they be strewn
‘Cross battles’…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreKeep Breathing
/… heat from the little air
that is coming into my body
is making lungs burn
slowly feeling …
By Andrew Scott
Read MoreLife Waves Buh-bye
/Death comes in threes. On March 3, 2023, inside Boston’s John P. Bedlow Memorial Hospital, the flatlined trifecta included an atheist, a Muslim, and a…
By CraigE
Read MoreThe Guaranteed Return
/Keith Martin was in coffee shop, grabbing his morning coffee, on the way to the office. He was about to leave with this take-out coffee, when someone called…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThe Guardian Sky
/…is a wild field out in space
where ancient rocks
wander without purpose,
drawn by Earth’s…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreNorth Carolina Bears Witness
/… slammed the door,
shaking the framed family
photos on the oak walls.
Perhaps she’d melt …
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreSingle Mom
/Single mom, with two children, from different fathers. From a distance, you might think she’s promiscuous, or deserved what she got, or wasn’t smart enough. Draw closer, hear her out. You’ll realize it could have been you, or any other person…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreJust Imagine
/Having spent over an hour and a half crawling through rush-hour traffic, Pete Winston arrived at the office more fed up than usual. As Pete got to his desk his phone was ringing. Whenever there was a phone call at work it meant there was a …
By Chris Platt
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