Category Archives: 2011-edition

Owl at Night

by Terri Halsey

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Storytelling at the School for the Blind: Part 1: Tsonokwa

By C. R. Manley I tell a gentler version of the Kwakiutl Tsonokwa myth. The hairy bogeyman who lives in the forest and eats noisy children. Broad-Shouldered-Woman who says “Come into my house, child. I have something for you here” … Continue reading

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Storytelling at the School for the Blind: Part 2: Tsonokwa Surrounded

By C. R. Manley It is the same as with children who can see what their fingers touch: their mouths drop open, eyebrows rise, blank eyes widen. They snatch their fingers from the monster’s mouth. They pull hands away at … Continue reading

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8 Kilometers North of Baqubah June 7, 2006

By Gary W. Farris “Al-Zarqawi Dead”, the headline said, 144-point type catching the eye. I imagine the soldiers in Iraq celebrating: “Yes! We got him” they would shout, thumping one another and shaking hands. I don’t blame them at all, … Continue reading

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Each Life Converges To Some Centre

by Star Rush

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I was about to

by Daniel W. Rasmus remember the first time I saw you sitting on a bench immediately I constructed you out of shadows from the eyes up then nose lips arms toes we always do that on first impression never exact         … Continue reading

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It’s All Gravy

By Martha Silano a gravy with little brown specks a gravy from the juices in a pan the pan you could have dumped in the sink now a carnival of flavor waiting to be scraped loosened with splashes of milk … Continue reading

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Of a Daughter

by Elizabeth Carroll Hayden Frail binding cracks, leaving glue’s dust on my fingers, the book falls open, to the underscore on Ulysses, but, I paint Penelope, not scarred by the scrags of war but long years of separation from Ulysses. … Continue reading

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Alicia Elena

by Andrea Torres

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Poem for My Daughter

by C.R. Manley I walked out into the parking lot at midnight and scared a jackrabbit twice as big as you. It sat absolutely still for a moment, its long stiff ears straight up, watching me with its sad, dark … Continue reading

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