Fingers of Light
Fingers of light peel away the hiddenness of badge-wearing sadists and Apache helicopter war crimes. Fingers of light peel away the lies...
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By Rowland Hughes
- Jul 11
- 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Sat in the toy corner, withdrawn from the conversations around him.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
- Jul 11
- 1 min
To Do List
Laundry. Vacuum. Roar at the sky. Get cat food. Get Pentagon de-funded. Win imaginary argument with God. Lose actual argument with God....
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jun 24
- 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 Richard Katrovas
- May 12
- 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 Mathew Ehret
- May 11
- 22 min
Edgar Allan Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering “Eureka”
"What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 16
- 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 Daniel Leach
- Apr 1
- 6 min
The Devil at Woodstock
I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great...
By Bruce Meyer
- Feb 4
- 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 Caitlin Johnstone
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
In That Final Moment
When the nukes start flying, when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, when reality comes crashing down in the most overt...
By Richard Katrovas
- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
A Riff on Romantic Love
I do not need you like I do not need To read, or weep, or stew in nightly news. I do not need you like I do not need To whistle past the...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Sep 2, 2021
- 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 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 James A. Tweedie
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Daphne and Apollo
“O foolish Cupid,” fair Apollo mocked. “To think that you, a wanton boy, should dare To think yourself the equal to a man Of arms, or...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Jun 12, 2021
- 1 min
Welcome to Planet Earth
Welcome to Planet Earth, where books written by dead men tell the living how to live. Where children who do not know how to live teach...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Aspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)
Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
An Andalusian Dream
Over the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the...
By Bruce Meyer
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Friendship
As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Love
Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...