Hammer It’s more than just a hunk of intricately carved wood, isn’t it I think I felt that as soon as I set eyes on it it moved me the lotus, the open palms, the slight smile not merely a piece of art beautifully wrought, don’t get me wrong yet it surpasses what even the artist intended to me beyond symbolic, it’s my chosen avatar representing all I want to […]
Archive | October, 2014
Larry Thacker | The question rises
The question rises without permission, like the sun or moon. You must struggle with this question, with where it leads, with what it asks of you. A tree once stood here, did it not? I’m sure of it, you think. I’m sure. Look around, find your bearings, remember your time here before. Stare at the sawdust under your feet, fresh with the faintness of gasoline soaked into what remains […]
Ed Higgins | formation of a black (w)hole
who can quite say when careless talk & confidence slips into that other charged thing so minimal at first then nova explosions– outer layers once held by gravity, other stable Einsteinium equations, collapsed inside to those dense brilliant colors whose appearance you’d forgotten completely but for the occasional misty love lyric on the car stereo driving down that quite ordinary road of what passes for life sometimes or fate if […]
Brian Doyle | Stigmata
October. Patient is forty years old. Caucasian male, Catholic priest. Heartbeat sound, blood pressure normal, slightly underweight for height. Complaint: pain in hands, feet, and lower left abdomen. Symptoms first manifested five weeks ago. Patient thought nothing of it, chalked it up to encroaching age, entropy, etc. Pain in abdomen increasingly severe however and during visit today patient was scanned for appendicitis, colon blockage, hernia, etc. No evident cause found. […]
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