Books Referenced:This Is Not a Pity Memoir, Abi Morgan (HarperCollins 2022)A Life in Light, Mary Pipher, (Bloomsbury 2022)The Organist, Mark Abley (University If Regina Press 2019)The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer (Canongate 2022)They Have Bodies, Barney Allen (ed. Gregory Betts: University of Ottawa Press 2020)This Time A Better Earth, Ted Allen (ed. BartContinue reading “Books Not for the Beach. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
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The Knights of Malta trilogy. by Marthese Fenech
This page is a surprise book birthday present for Marthese Fenech, whose decades-in-the-making trilogy reached its epic conclusion this month. Mar is not only a WordCity Literary Journal contributor and supporter, but a friend and an inspiration. With her brave and capable women characters, Mar’s historical fiction, and Mar herself, embody the spirit and strengthContinue reading “The Knights of Malta trilogy. by Marthese Fenech”
3 poems by Romana Iorga
You Never Wanted It Anyway 1. This evening drips languorous poison into my veins. You tilt the blue shade away from your pillow. My shadow leaps on all fours onto the wall, hangs upside down by its nails, sprints across the ceiling. Outside, the sky is burning, a mad woman in her twilit garden. 2.Continue reading “3 poems by Romana Iorga“
3 poems by Lisa Reynolds
Haiku his seed planted without consent Advice One day she may come to you Body bruised, lip split from The wrath of him Trust me when I say It is you who she needs You who can help her Feel whole again Choice Choice is a word you want her to know Choice gives optionsContinue reading “3 poems by Lisa Reynolds”
Bitter Sweet. a poem by Dakarai Mashava
Bitter Sweet (For my granny Mbuya Kwenda on her 92nd birthday) What a beautiful sight to behold You atop the giant mountain of time Looking back into time Aeon upon aeon Sucking in both happy and sad memories Remembering the bountiful harvests that made you an envied farmer Remembering too your people who fell byContinue reading “Bitter Sweet. a poem by Dakarai Mashava“
3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh
For Mahsa Amini There is a sign for life and for death too. In the midst of the chaos of Death preachers and the silence of us, the victims. The bruise of your eye is a sign that you had known the life. You crossed the fearful border of silence to leave the chaos ofContinue reading “3 poems by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
The Knight. a poem by Todd Matson
The Knight She shouldn’t be here? Are you referring to how she shouldn’t have survived being born so premature only to prematurely lose her mom at age 4 when she had to go live with her aunt where she was mentally, emotionally, verbally, physically and sexually abused by her uncle from 4 to 14, andContinue reading “The Knight. a poem by Todd Matson“
In the bewitched aviary. a poem by Paweł Markiewicz
In the bewitched aviary The sonnet according to Mr. Shakespeare Helots muse about moony Golden Fleece of the condor. Drudges think of the dreamy eternal dew of the hen. Philosophers ponder on winged fantasy of the crow. Kings ruminate on a picturesque gold of the jay. Priests contemplate the dreamed, soft, meek weird of theContinue reading “In the bewitched aviary. a poem by Paweł Markiewicz”
Damselflies. a poem by Anne Sorbie
Damselflies What if we women all met in the Garden of Eden stretched our arms wide as branches stood together embracing our art with joy What if we flew down to the river to kneel washed each other’s tired feet offering the healing that comes with touch as our kind has done for millennia TheContinue reading “Damselflies. a poem by Anne Sorbie”
3 poems by Laura Sweeney
MEDITATION ON CAREENING If you are careening toward the darkness standing at the intersection of New Beginnings and Old Era Road, confused about how to recover from a rut remember bad shit happens but bitches who are bad bounce back. Walk the tidepool against the current. You do not have to be discreet reserved orContinue reading “3 poems by Laura Sweeney“
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