Contributor Series 3: Resolution and Resolve I dropped it again By Rae Spencer And of course, it broke The clap and wrack of it Familiar as any ruin Strafed across the floor As when our parents divorced In that first long arc of loss When it whined through the air Like crystal stroked to cry […]

Contributor Series 3: Resolution and Resolve Lost Dream By Joan McNerney I am driving up a hill without a name on an unnumbered highway. This road transforms into a snake winding around coiled on hairpin turns. At bottom of the incline lies a dark village strangely hushed with secrets. How black it is. How difficult […]

Contributor Series 3: Resolution and Resolve Resolutions By Eve Hall Another year has come and gone. This is the time we make new goals. Resolutions that we fail to keep that are, just another way of lying to ourselves. Plans to lose weight and not stay up late, that we will save money and spend […]

Contributor Series 3: Resolution and Resolve Weathering By Dee Thompson My old Mazda slices through the wet cold morning world Windshield wipers thwock thwock. I hate driving in rain. Anxiety underlines everything. The only beauty–tall pines fringing the ashy sky, a fit canopy to my meditation cave. Far west, my sister/friend prepares to journey east. […]

Contributor Series 3: Resolution and Resolve Homelessness … it’s real By Jimmi Ware They smile to keep from crying out loud Faceless wandering in the downtown crowd Trying to regroup from the bittersweet In need of shelter, a nourishing meal to eat They are afraid and pretend to be tough When the truth is being […]