Walking east on Custer from 1st to 15th carrying two jars of honey, thinking about heroes and honey bees, villains and last stands and ghosts, the bitter wind at my back, the slippery path ahead. Continue reading »
Daily Archives: January 1, 2013
New Year’s Resolution 2013 – Russell Streur
I demand a new noise. I demand a new pitch Another key A different tune. I demand a new card. I demand a new deal. I demand a new deck. I demand a new hand. I demand a new arithmetic. Another equation A different number A recount. I demand a new language Another chapter A … Continue reading »
New Year’s Triptych – Lorraine Caputo
I. Outside the empty streets echo with blasts of fireworks To scare away the demons that lurk in the shadows of time a-changing & within this silent house my mind echoes Scare away those demons of war, hunger, disease Scare away those demons of misery & poverty Scare away those demons of corporate greed that … Continue reading »
Welcoming the New Year – Lorraine Caputo
Midnight approaches without a bell toll Already rockets burst in green & white in a red heart against a sooty sky The old men are dragged to the streets & at that hour they are burnt & firework stuffing exploding & we eat grapes, one by one Gabriel counts his money over & again Rice … Continue reading »
A message from GMT +11 – Miguel Jacq
in oceania we hurtle head-first through time, riding ahead as if mercenary scouts, counting the tick of eons on the grandfather clock, winding our message in a tail of dust, strapped and whipping against the achilles heel. I hear the thirteenth bell clanging, the shudder of earth rolling out of darkness into light Continue reading »
Thirtieth December two-thousand and twelve – F.U. Onyeoziri
It looms in my face, so near I have forgotten it’s in the future. I can’t steer my desire to seize it, Even as I stretch to my full length just to pluck it, Yet it still is just a hair’s breadth away, Just right there almost at my fingertips, almost! I have parlayed patiently … Continue reading »
