This month’s Community Altar celebrates Jord, the Earth Goddess, as we celebrate the traditional first harvest. Living in California, there’s always something to harvest (avocados are in season all year, and that alone makes being a California resident A Good Thing!), so “first harvest” doesn’t have quite the same connotation as it does in the […]
Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone – Rosario Castellanos Translated from Spanish by George D. Schade Here I am, seated, with all my words, like a basket of green fruit, intact. The fragments of a thousand destroyed ancient gods seek and draw near each other in my blood. They long to rebuild their statue. From their […]
Crossroads ~ Joyce Sutphen The second half of my life will be black to the white rind of the old and fading moon. The second half of my life will be water over the cracked floor of these desert years. I will land on my feet this time, knowing at least two languages and who […]
Poetry ~ Pablo Neruda And it was at that age…Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when, no, they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from […]
