Little Allegory ~ Peter Cooley “I’m not the kind of heaven you thought you’d find,” the sky said, spreading itself across the floor here, in the kitchen, its gold leaf freaked and split as it appeared and disappeared and stained the morning with its radiance. “And furthermore, you’re not my idea of a prophet or […]
Anticipation ~ Amy Lowell I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming. There have been times I feared to walk down the street Lest I should reel with the wine of you, And jerk against my neighbours As they go by. I am parched now, and my […]
A Reminiscence ~ Richard O. Moore For Kenneth Rexroth, 1950 Held in a late season At a shifting of worlds, In the golden balance of autumn, Out of love and reason We made our peace; Stood still in October In the failing light and sought, Each in the other, ease And release from silence, From […]
Tricks up its Sleeves ~ Dorothy Walters I think I lost sight of myself years ago, when something happened and I became someone other than what I was. This new personage and I are still getting acquainted. It arrives with tricks up its flowing sleeves, granting me new abilities, unaccustomed gifts. Now I can feel […]
The Powwow at the End of the World ~ Sherman Alexie I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam and topples it. I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I […]
