Our god created a flower so that we would seek it; he sent us off in hiding; he arranged all manner of elaborate ways to visit us; he sometimes turned us into animals. He controlled the rain. We could have anything we wanted, except our lives. He could take them away or change them at any minute. We could become springs, or goats, or castaways…
Treasure Hunters by Lydia Ship
We were looking for wisdom and saved up for wisdom detectors to use much like treasure hunters moving in the cadence of the blind on stillborn beaches. Then we had to save up for time. When we got the time, we frittered it away on petty things rather than using the wisdom detectors for wisdom. Sometimes we used the wisdom detectors to detect fancy food….
Through the Wall, Night by C.S. Ward
I would like to stay in the cool grey background of the movie Night of the Living Dead. Beyond all the killing, I noticed some beautiful vistas. I pushed away a slow arm and walked over a small hill. As the moon rose, my students appeared. The snake moving through the skulls is to be trusted, I tell them as their…
Go-Go Can by Christine Beck
As the sixties passed you by in Berkeley, as we limber-limbed young women tumbled onto madras covered beds with guys who turned us on, did you imagine us awakening in what was left of last night’s clothes, furry-tongued and tousled, smelling of stale dope and sex? As lyrics taunted you, a clumsy economics prof: I can’t get no … please allow me to … satis…
For the Love of Schnauzers by Erica Johnson
your heart had risen when I awoke this morning it hung like a dull leaden weight in the sky, flickering when the clouds lifted it illuminated a schnauzer field and it glowed Image by: Andre Fromont