Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant My Companion Piece By Bryan Borland At the funeral they called him my companion, which made him sound less like my husband than my pet, my friend with the furry belly I instinctively rub. These two weeks he’s been the guide dog to my blindness. I’d have run […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Our Volition Was in Not Turning By Ray Sharp Scraps of paper lifted on a careless wind, these are my verses tonight. You came to me so– the familiar face on the peeling wheatpaste poster blown across the square, come alive at my feet, deft motion of fate’s […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Hearts By Mariah Boone The heart-shaped leaves are from no tree I can see Dark and dry They come on some wet wind to crumble in our yard No colors on South Texas leaves They have no flaming hospice, only Green, brown, dust My stepfather, when he was […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant I Have No Memory of Love By R Martin Basden I have no memory of love but the harbor of your arms and the shelter given daily in your smile Time does not exist without you by my side even time before the vows that marked us one […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant A Cactus Grows in the Desert By BR Belletryst Weather, and a bird, how dependent, cactus. Lifecycles of the strange; the simple desert between them. Twenty years in the making, a bloom, the chance, one chance, one life. Grown steadily from roots clinging for water, for nourishment, for […]