Making Light
Warm in the air, wet in the dirt: first rain. From my bones lifts the hurt of winter. Rain hums in the gutters, keeps time on the roof. Inside, I hum a simple tune: a garden, long days, dark dirt. I hum and the room
Daily Archives: February 3, 2019
Awake in the Night
Some small creature scurries and scampers inside the length of my bedroom wall. I don’t want to read any more about reading. I don’t want to discuss literary theory, to deconstruct deconstructionism. All I want is to free the restless mouse scurrying inside these walls.
Apollo Ascends
In My Personal History of Boyfriends, John D. is subtitled The Drip. From his boy bob to his tentative spectacles to his Eeyorean countenance, John dripped from crown to sole like a crack in a cistern. Midway through my rather educational I-Can- Save-You-with-My-Love period (roughly
for when i know where i’m going
in swedish hej means hello and goodbye and i can tell you five places to go for coffee in my neighborhood but i can’t tell you where i’m headed just yet, or when to say goodbye. We barrel down highway 102 with no direction in
Italian Sonnet As Directions To A Belly
I saw Ronald Reagan curing bad knees in El Salvador. There was this one man my family knew, Berto, who was from a family of bricklayers. Berto’s knees were so bad that one day he went to church and went down to pray and then
Emotional Portraits
Michelle Nguyen is a color pencil portrait artist. All artwork has a focus on human emotions.
Figures
Nasos Karabelas is a fine art photographer and film director based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He was born in 1992 in Pyrgos, Greece. He started dealing with photography the last six years and he has produced five short films and one feature film(OSMOSIS) which took
Smooth Animals
There was a rumor that not all the exhibits in the Spokane Memorial Zoo were, well… That somewhere there was an attic, or a supply closet, or an elevator shaft, and in it was somebody’s special project, and if you knew that person, and if
Boston Doldrums
My name is Parker Galloway and I am a photographer from Oxford, Mississippi. I’m currently working exclusively in black and white films because I like the grain and contrasts that reveal themselves from that. My focus is in Mississippi, where I’m documenting Ghost Towns and
The Fever of Light
Bill Wolak has just published his fifteenth book of poetry entitled The Nakedness Defense with Ekstasis Editions. His collages have appeared recently in Naked in New Hope 2017, The 2017 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Poetic Illusion, The Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ, the 2018 Dirty Show