Truth is Cringe
/I’m not half as bad
as Quinn tells her friends.
Phone to her ear,
she spills us…
By Andy Cooper
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Coach Cool
/A personal memory of how a single incident can change life’s trajectory.
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Many years ago, I stopped into Roederer’s Tavern in Burlington, Iowa, for a quick Pabst. To my surprise, sitting there at the bar was the former Burlington Junior College basketball coach Ed Sparling. Back in the late 1960s…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreThe Final Passage
/Mortality is more than mere statistics
when illness takes a devastating dive
and the failing body
reveals the fragile nature of …
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreSuch Is Life
/My people hardly traveled. Those who did were few. And everyone knew them. Because they were usually the multilinguals in the village who brought news, songs and tales of other lands to our…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MorePut it to Flight
/Our lives are short and should…
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All people of the world comprise humanity.
Our beautiful lives experience ephemerality.
The world around us shows us our…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreSacred Spots
/Seeking external solace and inner peace
the wayfarer searched river banks, altars,
sacred mountains, wailing walls, solar vortexes
for blessed spots where awakening…
By Sterling Warner
Read MoreForever Mortal...
/Hollywood has its many ghost stories: an ethereal Marilyn Monroe sashaying through the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel; John Belushi’s shadow figure seen lurking about Chateau Marmont, a 1929 gothic-style hotel and bungalows where he OD’d on a lethal…
By CraigE
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