MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY
MY GRANDMOTHER’S BRIEF INVENTORY OF UNNATURAL DISASTERS IN SINGAPOREBy Cyril Wong
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Of course, I remember my husbandas a young man – sleeked-back hair,his taller frame,...
WITHOUT YOU by Ann Christine Tabaka
WITHOUT YOUby Ann Christine Tabaka
Without You
A thousand years agoit came to be, or so itseems. It spit my heartin two, or so it felt.
THE BRIDE by Wally Swist
THE BRIDEby Wally Swist Salutations: after Antonio Porchia for Richard Shaw 1.The fields are buttercuppedand edged with ragged robin. We've entered the realmof the subtle variegations of the colors of summer. 2.Wishing you well on a mid-June...
SURVIVAL BALLAD by Michael Atkinson
SURVIVAL BALLADby Michael Atkinson
Investigations
“All detectives are in love, and all detectivestories have beds.”– Guillermo Calderon,screenplay for Neruda
All detective stories are clocks,...
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DETACHED by Laura Dunn
DETACHEDby Laura Dunn
I.Phase, just a phase. Not to worry,You’re only insane.Dirty hippy, smoking herb,We don’t want to share your word.Just too liberal, just too free,Don’t you wish you...
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WORD by Patrick T. Reardon
WORDby Patrick T. Reardon
Make
In summer, the father grilled hot dogswith his white t-shirt off, skin burning.
In fall, he tolled novenas.
LIFE, INTERRUPTED by Roseanne Morales
LIFE, INTERRUPTEDby Roseanne Morales
Life, Interrupted
A growing sensation never there,a dream you woke up from, wonderingdid it even happen, in another life,perhaps another death never...
LAUDA XV by Jacapone da Todi, translated by Ted Witham
LAUDA XVBy Jacapone da TodiTranslated from the Umbrian by Ted Witham
Pursue poverty, and peace will reign over all:with poverty life is secure, No fear from thieves or thunder squall.Poverty...
FRANCIS SEAL OF LOVE by Vittoria Colonna, translated by Ted Witham
FRANCIS SEAL OF LOVEBy Vittoria ColonnaTranslated by Ted Witham Jesus presses wax to the living flesh Blazes wounds, seals in love, Lover's heat. Marks on Francis a true image, so fresh with love, Francis celebrates: replete. When he gripped you and gave to you his fire, and virtue itself, all of you was made whole. Now among...
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RAPID MOVEMENT by Patrick Hurley
RAPID MOVEMENTby Patrick Hurley
Selections from “Variation” (Part Two of Quartet)
sequential fantasy bendssheets of lightinto cylinders––veinsarteriescapillaries
the waxing and waningof pressure feltlike forces...