Time Sharing by BZ Niditch

With a childhood path to an island of memory opens from secretive eyes known to shadows nor entrapped by earth, sky and ocean, deserted from questions and forgotten answers, wanting to live again along the shore’s solitude confessing the past, mesmerized by absence of this intimation of nature of exotic birds and fauna a paradise … Continue reading →

A Copernican Love Story by Constantine Mountrakis

There are stars in the firmament which reveal themselves only to me Radiating from places that accelerate toward the unknowable past Radiating From tidal kingdoms Each night rising and falling And rising anew Each night High atop the spires of my longing As a lone astronomer Hoping for a glimpse Of an elusive stellar body … Continue reading →

BURNING by Philip Vermaas

I know more about fire than you do. I’ve been burning for close on forty years. She ran up the steep slope of her childhood home when I couldn’t burn the crumpled paper, as promised, with rays from the sun concentrated through broken glass. She ran to fetch her mother’s matches, she secretly knew where … Continue reading →