Pirates and Parallel Parking
Lucy Peterson wouldn't describe herself as the kind of girl who teaches Russian men how to walk the plank, plucks old ladies' whiskers to gussy them up for dates, and avoids parallel parking…but...
Category: Arts & Literature
Short Poems
Light Rain the glowing smartboard in the darkened room of teachers Afternoon faculty meeting one of the bosses talks in front of the stuffy, overheated room; outside, the hedge trees shiver in the...
Vile Chorus
Si Mimouni was kind and friendly and open and good-looking. He was also reputed to be really smart. One of my friends knew him from home so he often stopped to talk to us. He was a new breed of...
Marie Antoinette
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Lalla Fatima
Lalla Fatima Summer time– blast of the same black sirocco blow-dries bright green under the shattered villa windows. It’s siesta time. Transparent, like a sheet of paper, blank, Lalla Fatima, in...
Frail as a Flickering Mirage
Wednesday at last. They met face to face after an eternity of waiting. It began six months ago, at one of many chat websites, in a private chat room, where she bared her soul before him. It did not...
The Saxophone Player and A Stop in New Orleans
In memory of Sheldon P. Zitner, a teacher and friend. The Saxophone Player The wind bears an iron fist, my back to the wall, holding on to the gravity of life. Black night opens its jaws to reveal a...
Son and Heir
It was lovely for a while I thought he had it in him To do somersaults in the sky And land with a jubilant whoosh In a field of marshmallows pink and white I believed he could race against the wind...
Powerless
You lose your sense of reality if you are not part of civil society With material benefits comfort is what you find Practicing your rights however Delivers peace of mind You are allowed to raise...
To those of you who have passed away…
We feel for you But act we don't We share your pain But fight we won't We revel proudly in your courage As if it were our own For the impotent and weak Can drone on and on Our sympathies to your...