Alan Walowitz | Matins

Though it’s usually best not to pay attention, you ought to keep an eye on the silent souls who wander out this hour, unwitting in our dark conspiracy of milling and mumbling to ourselves, or even to each other— till the birds screech to the tops of the subway grates readying for escape, then dawn on the lampposts, in the trees, and the peaks of the roofs. The martial music […]

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Laura Grace Weldon

Laura Grace Weldon | Four poems

Everything, Anything  “Find everything you’re looking for?” a clerk asks and I say, “I’m still looking for world peace.” “Can I get you anything else?” a nurse asks and I say, “Yes, a safe haven for refugees.” For a millisecond, their faces soften as they take a deep breath of imagining then laugh or shake their heads or commiserate. For a few minutes we might even discuss our planet’s highest […]

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Karen Robiscoe | Rain-catcher

He was a wayfaring work of peace, a wind traveler –alone (save a dog that glowed) and tender of spirits bottles brimming with Soul, man ~and some accumulated fluff~ flasks filled with rain, and tied to his belt with bows– –bows gathered from foggy frontlines, and a different draft to war– he wore flasks. Cruets— he had cruets. Charmed arm bands dripping with tears, and stopped (at the top) with […]

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Retrieving our collective soul | An interview with Sandra Ingerman

Sandra Ingerman is a world-renowned teacher of shamanism who has been working in the United States and abroad for more than 30 years. She is the leading practitioner in the West of soul retrieval—a shamanic healing modality—and her book on the subject, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, has been translated into 10 languages beyond English. She is also the author of 10 other books on shamanism and spirituality, as […]

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