Just a thought If you should find yourself wondering ‘am I really…really there right there with you everyday “yes” of course I’ am there in your heart…and in your memories no matter where in sleep I lay if you’d really like to talk…but you feel there’s nothing left to say then please…please lighten-up that heavy…heavy heart ‘cause I’m really…only really just a single “thought” away —– Home I know […]
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Sarah A. Chavez | Cheers to the Dead
I wonder if he’s hungry there in his grave amongst the sediment and microorganisms. The Hmong relatives of his neighbors bring bowls of rice and vegetables, sweet dishes whose names I can’t pronounce and cans of Coke. All he gets are American flags and flowers. Even in death they won’t let Grandpa eat or drink. He loved to tell me how Grandma kept him to one beer a […]
Joanna Chen | Bedouin Pastoral
I’m thinking of the Bedouin shepherd near our house with his fierce dogs and his Kansas City baseball cap pulled down over his eyes. He’s maybe fourteen and knows how to whistle so low that only the sheep, grazing on fennel shoots and hyssop, raise their heads to listen. Last week I stood on the stony path that runs between the two sides of the forest, trapped by […]
Danusha Laméris | The Bugs of Childhood
Don’t you remember them, the furred legs of a caterpillar moving along your arm, each follicle prickling beneath their touch? The crumpling of the ladybug’s underwings as it tucked them back beneath its glossy shell. The butterfly on your finger unfurling its long, spiral tongue. Rows and rows of ants, hefting their white eggs. The fly’s head bowed, antennae bent under the careful work of forelegs as it bathed its […]
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