Refashioned, Using Suede Juxtapose
Two days later I come to and find wolfs in my flannel sheets and a Czar hiding in my bedroom slippers. I put on a robe to cover-up my balalaikas and stagger to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee. Here’s the point where you may want to add wind chimes or just a couple of bacchanal sirens taped to the kitchen counter. See, I never make it to the coffee pot. I trip over my oversize dog and land in a drapery crew cut, breaking my commemorate precaution shimmy feather and flashbulb to heaven where I’m cordially greeted by statuesque hype mugging milk and honey on a leash. But this muffler...
Read MoreFlowers
To be alive is power – Emily Dickinson We don’t expect to be here tomorrow so we are ruthless with our small lives we pump fragrance into the morning jewel the afternoon bend our petals like thumbs at night after the scrape of drought cloud is our deliverance water comes down in silver wires and ants twitch air between our roots the rough lick of the hose leaves a cleft for diffidence the crest of a worm’s tender head we eat bones blood and meat and our own bodies and...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of Sept. 3
In our second weekly installment since we converted from a quarterly format, we feature work from three women. In her triolet, “Your Old & Forever Wedding Patchwork,” poet Patricia Ranzoni weaves a wedding runner in words. In her short story, “Learning to Dance,” writer Barbara Kussow explores the blurry relationship between dance and romance. Photographer Kate LaDew’s “Petra” and “Mount of Olives” capture the beauty and ethereal color of our...
Read MoreYour Old & Forever Wedding Patchwork
(a triolet) Here, dears, a runner for your unity flame pieced from our hope chests, Indian baskets, hearts, for yours. The way we save for rites in our name — here, dear, a runner for your unity flame. Joined ribbon, lace, crocheted, embroidered and sewn, from your grandmother’s and great aunts’ homestead arts — here, dears, a runner for your unity flame, pieced from our hope chests. Indian baskets....
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