Sheikha A. – Qasbah
Qasbah Sometimes it takes a grain of salt to break curses; somewhere a cosmos rewrites itself. His eyes are Bellatrix, radiant on ebonized velvet; shoulders, strong limbs of Betelgeuse; together we are a clan of destinies, chronic in complex spectra of fragmented algorithms: this is also the way I dream. In a past night I […]
Roger Dutcher – Getting to Mars
Getting to Mars “I’ll be dead before we get to Mars,” I mumble loudly into my beer. “Much less back to the moon!” To the young women behind the bar, it’s not hard to believe; I’m already old, old enough to be their grandfather, this gray haired guy who comes in all too regularly, who […]
Robert Perchan – On Gunsmoke
On Gunsmoke 383 kills in 635 episodes –Yahoo The Eternal Outlaw rides into Dodge astride Old Beam of Light. He ties Old Beam of Light to a hitching post and throws down shots of redeye inside the Long Branch Saloon. Ah, that inner glow! Those tiny shafts of light searching his dark arteries for the […]
Perry Janes – The Tower
The Tower i. Long Island, 1905. Construction of Tesla’s crown jewel, Wardenclyffe Tower, grinds to a halt as costs exceed their budget. TIME Magazine reports Always someone wanting it all and losing it. Isn’t that right? Let me begin again: Welcome to Tesla’s Million Dollar Folly! It is another gray New York day and the […]
Adele Gardner – In the Vaults
In the Vaults (Inspired by the photograph “Cold Storage” by Richard C. Isner in the collections of The Mariners’ Museum, “In the Vaults” is dedicated to TMM’s cold storage negative vaults and photography collection – with their undreamed, secret life) We left our horses long ago. Their breath still steams in photos, though – Those […]
