by Kathleen Peppard
What do you do when you receive
the emergency alert warning
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
INBOUND TO HAWAII.
SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Continue reading
Thirty-Eight Minutes
Filed under Poetry
White Ginger
by Joseph Stanton
Picked ginger, a glory of fragility, perfumes,
ever so briefly, a person or a room.
There are those who avoid the odor,
but for me it’s a sudden door—
discovered sometimes
on the edges of my lawn— Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
Immigrant
by Angela Nishimoto
For AJM
Blue butterfly with black, brown
And green marks. Carried by the breeze and
Her own limp exertions, she beats
Her wings dizzy without sugar-fuel for
Two days. Blown from continental beach
Out to the Pacific Ocean, she opens her wings, closes.
Swooped upon by the god-wind, she cannot resist.
She is lepidopteran, an animal, so she must eat. Continue reading
Golden Autumn
by Paula Goldman
after Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1873)
Each morning when the sun streams
into the bedroom from the lake,
I see Monet’s Impression, Sunrise.
How he did it in one sitting! No,
he was standing at a window
overlooking the harbor at Le Havre. Continue reading
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The Pool
by Delphine Hirsh
It was hot. So hot. Triple digits by eight AM. The twins and I sat on towels in the car to avoid burning the backs of our thighs. I “held” the steering wheel with my fingertips. The twins had rivulets of sweat lacing their ears when I kissed them goodbye at the schoolyard and drove away. Continue reading
Filed under Fiction
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