Made
What are you, the Human, made of? / From the loving cup of the giant ammonite / the milliard glistening crystals of predatory lenses / the world-girdling scramble of the kelpie’s mane …
Category: Life
After “Desiderata” (Collection)
Contestants were asked to respond to the timeless message of Max Ehrmann’s 1927 poetic prose essay. Their winning entries follow …
Pietra Dura
Here is the closed blue eyelid of time you touch to make sure, to see. Through a flat window of …
From Humble Dark Beginnings
I grew beneath the shadows where light was hard to find lay there amongst the darkness abandoned, left behind. I …
The Last Drop
Never want to leave that sunset Value every single ray Though the brightness of the sunshine Spent its youth and …
Torsional Cartography
Doodle meander lines for a new island. Indent harbors and jut peninsulas with a bend of your pen. Snake waterways …
No falling tears
Each day a knife walk, life and death, Step left to die or right to breath. My time will come …
Necessary Communication Barriers
The air is untrustworthy in the vein of neighbors, friends and strangers. Essential floats on a field of grey and …