Straightening Nails his granddaddy settled in Ridgedale North Saskatchewan a carpenter all his life and gave the six-year old a simple task – straighten nails for this was a time when nothing got thrown away, nothing taken for granted, everything repurposed, everything reused and with a hammer and intention the boy spent his summer straightening nails for thisContinue reading “Poetry by Josephine LoRe”
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A Tribute to WordCity Literary Journal by Nancy Ndeke
n idea whose time has come, like a full term pregnancy must birth. Word is as alive as life is. Word is a force and carries a moment often beyond itself. It consolidates thoughts and makes a presentation like a well choreographed musical where the instruments and instrumentalists become a unified rhythm of sounds andContinue reading “A Tribute to WordCity Literary Journal by Nancy Ndeke”
Poetry by PAWEŁ MARKIEWICZ
Confession of the poetical firefly to muse-butterfly of poesy You must excuse me. You dear dreamer! I have overly felt my dreamery about Golden Fleece. I built my small paradise without any other ontological beings. I based the dreamiest sempiternity on tenderness of my wings. Thus. I painted my wings in color of an ambrosia.Continue reading “Poetry by PAWEŁ MARKIEWICZ”
Poetry by Mansour Noorbakhsh
Dignity “To: Joyce Echaquan*” A flat tire stopped us In the middle of a vast desert extending between two oceans. Sands can move through the borders freely with the wind, as waves can move through borders in the ocean. No border exists for sand and waves. Sands are equal, waves too. We are stopped inContinue reading “Poetry by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
Poetry by Lydia Renfro
Thanksgiving I’m set to go, here at last. Pack up my beleaguered brain, fill myself with glories of going home. Just as my ancestors, I’m starting in the east coldhearted and coast-lonely, to cross fields and plains, come up again to that mountain. I will find my people inside, all coffee and dominoes, smiling toContinue reading “Poetry by Lydia Renfro”
Poetry by Yash Seyedbagheri
Sinking down a country road, swarthiness blends into soft soils on sunny days a kaleidoscope of flame and golden leaves shimmers and sings against pale skies a wall of pines rises swarthiness tucked in needle blankets but even here, thunder rumbles and every time it rumbles lightning flickers it draws closer swarthiness sinks a littleContinue reading “Poetry by Yash Seyedbagheri”
Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson
Flower Girl Poems are hard to create they live, then die, walk alone in tears, resurrect in family mausoleums. They walk with you alone in ghostly patterns, memories they deliver feeling unexpectedly through the open windows of strangers. Silk roses lie in a potted bowl memories seven days before Mother’s Day. Soak those tears, patienceContinue reading “Poetry by Michael Lee Johnson”
Poetry by Nancy Ndeke
I’M POSSIBLE. Possessed with ideals of perfection, Shapes and sizes telling beauty, Skin tones and heights, Pedigrees rules the mortal man, Dare you a scar acquire, Or bent of back in need of wheels, Masses stare in disbelief, Love may well take a back seat, Or all together commit you into hiding, As if youContinue reading “Poetry by Nancy Ndeke”
A Covid Recovery Road Trip Pt2. Memoir by Gary Fowlie
May 28 Covid Gramps and the Arrogant Millennial An overweight, out of shape young man is jogging. He stops and sweats all over the sidewalk on an uphill stretch of Edgecombe Avenue in Washington Heights. He wears no mask and shows no concern for this busy stretch of pavement, where other old masked men likeContinue reading “A Covid Recovery Road Trip Pt2. Memoir by Gary Fowlie”
Poetry by Saraswoti Lamichhane
good-bye home town above the rich crops of the valley paddy, maize, millet, green, greener, grey I fly away from my center, to the edge, farther and farther away silence brings me back to my senses my laughter-lit Cindrella hours are over the hills that guard the valley fade dim soon they soften my memoriesContinue reading “Poetry by Saraswoti Lamichhane”
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