March 2009
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Poet: David Zarnitzky
City Tree A city tree like a peasant indentured with shackled feet has no fair vision of lofty heights climbing or great girth gaining to be hole-cut-through and driven on a picture postcard placed. To the heavens from its common root Never shall it rise. Yet, still what pedestrian way for itself is made will overshade in a great city several hundred worlds undreamt by even...
Mar 10th
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February 2009
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The Figments (A Short Story Cycle)
written by Patrick Gaughan —- illustrated by Hanna S. Abi-Hanna —- Figment I Jerry’s Birthday Wish I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. - Ursula K. Le Guin If Billy from Manor Drive came over, he would want to play wiffleball, and Jerry didn’t feel like chasing the ball around the yard all day. ...
Feb 7th
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January 2009
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We All Will Be Received
By Lillian Pontius-Goldblatt She was watching a science fiction TV show with her grandmother in the house on the very steep hill. The night before she’d lain on her back on top of the sheets on her bed listening to the saddest song on a very sad album over and over. She’d cried some, but not very much or for very long (though the music was up loud enough, no one would have heard; she made sure...
Jan 20th
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