Ivy Symbolizes Eternity
Annie K Ivy Symbolizes Eternity On a walk to the small local grocery store, I found a bee dying on the sidewalk You told me to leave it—the cement was hot—running up the soles of my shoe into my…
What the Water Knows
Joshua Adam Walker What the Water Knows The river does not speak of bones, nor whisper all the names it keeps. It hums in tongues the current owns, a language swallowed by the deep. The water knows the ones…
Illumination
Michael Boissevain Illumination “I am not empty, I am open.” --Vermeer, Tomas Transtromer After the stroke, after the aphasia, after the work of healing others, with one hand Tomas plays Haydn, moving deeper into pure music, where sound becomes…
On the Nature of Butting Heads
Ingrid Wendt On the Nature of Butting Heads What could be sweeter than breakfast on the palm-fringed veranda, so you set down your bowl of jungle fruit and dart inside for coffee. And shit, if the Long- Tailed Grackle hasn’t…
Talking to the Dead
Steven G. Kellman Talking to the Dead In Memoriam Wendy Barker Can we talk to the dead? Of course. But they never answer. A passion for language and each other brought the poet Wendy Barker and me together and kept…
