Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae I Am By Ailill I am a dream dreaming up a new song in the stillness before the dawn to celebrate the beginning of day, awakening to my place as a rising flame. I become a reflection inspired by the light of another fire, sustained by earth’s leaves, air’s breath, […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Inner Lives By Bob Christin That scruffy bearded homeless man pushing a cart of broken dreams stares out at the world in a trance, eyes unseeing, pointed straight ahead to protect himself from scorn, side glances of discomfort. His feeling locked or missing. He is independent, a person fully human […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Ode to Everyday Heroes By Mark Gooch Snow falling fast, the wind starts to howl, Driveway is full, cars are snowed in. What is that sound?  After the task, the driveway is clear. Flames eat the wood, billows of smoke reach the sky, A swish! And then the flames just […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae Wonder By Karen Schindler I am a spring green shoot pushing through the soil warmed by the sun nourished by the earth entranced by the moon seduced by bees and butterflies I am kitten noses, puppy toes, baby’s first steps I am joy personified and each passing moment renews my […]

Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae How Do Rivers Hide Their Tears By Bobbie Troy when night turns the corner and becomes morning the back of my mind inevitably stirs with musings on the day the complexities and mysteries of life trying to find the simplicity within i wish i never cease to think and dream […]