Dane Cervine – Second Thoughts on the Spiritual Path
Second Thoughts on the Spiritual Path Beautiful wasp zombifies cockroach… —YouTube video If one loves Brahman with steadfast devotion, one becomes Brahman. By thinking of nothing but the wasp, the cockroach is changed into a wasp. —Sankaracharya While reading The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton— a Catholic monk delving into the mysteries of India— I […]
Martha Silano – What I Wished For
What I Wished For Me, as a flag iris. A.k.a., wild. Me, spending a year with my father’s yellowing files, his yellowing eyes. Me, in a bog. Me, with some of me gone. Me, beside Coreopsis, beside clouds. The me of remember, of my uncle’s clarinet, notes coasting toward Bleeding Hearts. Me, passing from now […]
Maureen Sherbondy – The Article
The Article My father carried in his billfold an article about the shelf life of bypasses. This cold heart he revealed to us daily. He wanted to know when inky blood would stop flowing: that end-of-the-road spot on a map. I’m living on borrowed time his mantra for twenty-two years, hoping we’d love him for […]
stephanie roberts – Nothing of the Month Club
Nothing of the Month Club Wearing a light-weight twill jacket, a woman walks out the door with her life. She deposits the key in a snow-coated storm drain and keeps it moving. Better the exchange of the hundred thousand the bank requires for nothing. She goes. And thinks ghosting is alchemic poetry the invisible comes […]
Adele Kenny – In Which the Sky
In Which the Sky Blue jays screech above her house—a box on the stairs tips open (empty), but she never says lonely. She loved a man once for the look of him and his hands (the way his knuckles whitened when he flicked cards against the fence), and his fingertips (stars that burned out long […]
