The Devil at Woodstock
Listen to a recording of this piece here. I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or...
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By Daniel Leach
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Easter
Here, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
A Blessing for Everyone
May all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. May you learn quickly from your failures and successes....
By David B. Gosselin
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Deep Dreams
I dreamt a dream so deep last night, I felt I dreamt a thousand years; I felt I’d lived a thousand dreams— Dreams bearing not a single...
By Rowland Hughes
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
A Valley Funeral
Men, uncomfortably well dressed in funeral black, collars frayed, starched white, old shoes thick with polish. A woman pours tea into...
By Rowland Hughes
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Lake and Rainbow
We stopped at the lakeside and saw our first rainbow. It bled from a rusty sky, imported from a world unfamiliar to us both. This was...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
Future Generations, If There Are Future Generations
Future generations, if there are future generations, will scarce believe that our species once stockpiled armageddon weapons on purpose,...
By Dave Earnhardt
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
Hot and Cold
Mrs. Greenlaw modeled endless space for her third-grade students with a mobius strip, which, for its implications about the nature of...
By Gabriella Miller
- Sep 27, 2022
- 1 min
Euphoria
I cut my finger, the sanguine smell Permeates the air like petrichor. The blood flows slow like caramel Delighting in its long encore. My...
By Bruce Meyer
- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Reverence
They know what I will say. I will tell them how ants covered a dead bumblebee in cherry petals, how they came bearing more than their...
By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 1, 2022
- 1 min
Last Light
The last moment of sunshine dribbles from the watering-can. The moon, hunchback on a cloud, gathers its borrowed light, as the...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Child in the Café
Sat in the toy corner, withdrawn from the conversations around him. He opens a world of imagination, where the wooden blocks are windows...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jun 24, 2022
- 6 min
I Marvel
I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream
Falling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
By Richard Katrovas
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
A Riff on Abstraction
"Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
By Bruce Meyer
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Journeys
They met me coming up the concession to our lane after the bus’s flag stop. They were waiting in the bursts of asters, in milkweed pods...
By Gabriella Miller
- Aug 11, 2021
- 2 min
True Blue
The color before the sun rises, due east, as the horizon is painted with streaks from heaven like a stained brush across the celestial...
By Socrates Thalassos
- Jul 30, 2021
- 1 min
Naked Pagan
A naked pagan dancing with the sky, I am alien in your world. Your houses, factories, TV sets, It is difficult for me to understand how...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Endless Dreams
I dreamt an endless dream; I dreamt my dreams had ceased. I dreamt the darkest dream; I dreamt of blinding light. I dreamt I was a fool;...
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