Arda & The Stolen Moon crafts a timeless tasteful splendor on the triumphant “Outsider in Perpetual Motion”. Quite a gifted storyteller, the lyrics rest front and center of the entire…
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* * * envy Bird atop a flagpole___soared— mind skewered on spinal cord. * * * It’s no secret that his name is Ken Goodman, but (when ecstatic meditation…
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Image Credit: rainbow mural by liturgical artist Diane Brandt 1. It had been only two months since Brother Oakley had told me I was cursed, and I was…
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Karl McCann radiates a warm intimacy on the soulful “Vera Claims The Cosmos”. With lyrics that have a true sense of life there is a unique beauty to be found.…
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* * * The Marsh Everything is closed—the stores, the university, the parks, the beach— so I walk the road edging the salt marsh. The waters are out with the…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedCitizen Privilege, Microaggressions, and Living Outside the National Belonging Huddle
When You Don’t Fit the Eligibility Criteria But Fit the Profile “How can you shop at Walmart?” His brown eyes grow rounder as he ends his question. His body,…
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Once afraid of suspended time We’ve found our dog, jade eyes Once afraid turning into ash We know a growth of night past We walk a coffin, predicting…
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Black Wings by Sehba Sarwar Veliz Books, February 2019 SPD / B&N / Amazon 212 pages – fiction Caught single and living alone in a pandemic, I am grateful…
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* * * Peacock So much love, and it can do nothing against death! —César Vallejo It lies by the motorway’s rain-shrouded shoulder, motionless & mud-robed. Orphaned __________by the morning…
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Image Credit: Keagan Henman The Big Ask When the crumbs are swept from the table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them. –Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts…
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* * * Elegy for a Fledgling I find your silhouette etched on my window in fine white dust. Unwary fledgling, you’ve flown headlong into an illusion. I read your…
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My hands don’t look like my own. They remind me of my mother’s in her wedding photos. (Are wedding photos taken for the sole purpose of perfecting the image of…
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Swimming Home by Kayla Rodney Unlikely Books, November 2019 Amazon – 80 pages – poetry Hanging out in New Orleans, one of the first life skills I learned was…
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ArtCurrent EventsMusicA 500th Anniversary Commemoration of Renaissance Composer, Josquin des Prez, Renaissance composer
In the Western European Renaissance, the retrieval of antiquity and fulfillment in life became desirable goals, and it is in the music of Josquin des Prez in which these ideals…