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 […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the ElephantAnemonesBy Lisa Marie Basile The flower is in pieces,all of its petalsnext to the foot of the table.I’ll pick them up, I’llhang them so the bloodruns to their heads,keep them in the dark,and I will plant more. You remember this years from now.It is the same with people;some are […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant For My Growing Twin Sons By John Lee Clark What surprised me the most when I first touched my premature twin sons was how close my palms could get to their hearts thrumming against tender cages. Their skin too sensitive to stroke, I just held them close, chest […]

Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant Asexual BFF By Gianluca D’Elia Looks like we just broke up We fought about a lot of stuff But I still remember you It’s pretty difficult not to And I just realized I don’t need a woman or a man By my side But I’d like to be […]