After Natasha Trethewey   I am nine in the picture, standing in front of the Berlin Wall as though it’s just another tourist trap   and not an actual trap holding back actual people at that actual moment.… Read More “BERLIN 1988 by Tanja Hester”

  Craving distraction from electronic communication – bright screens, phone Pings and notifications – I leave my desk and step into the Natural light, shedding the fluorescents that, I swear, bring out the purple Tones in my complexion.… Read More “SHINRIN-YOKU by Ron Hickerson”

I tend to my heart like a fire, with occasional poking and prodding, to be sure the spirit of the thing remains intact.… Read More “DUSK IN LAMAR VALLEY, WYOMING by J. Heimberger”

In a suburban backyard, green-garlanded darkand creekshine—in the case of Light vs.… Read More “BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON AND RACCON by Roy Bentley”

The ambulance sirens have a new tenorWhen my parents came to visit me,in my home, a foreign placeto them, they asked,“Do you ever get used to thesirens here?”,… Read More “THE AMBULANCE SIRENS HAVE A NEW TENOR by Jennifer Lentfer”

“When, now, that gesture means [an] idea behind it and it arouses that idea in the other individual, then we have a significant symbol…it has become what we call “language.”… Read More “GESTURES by Emma Gray”