April 22, 2024

Thorns and All (Comments below)

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This Week's Press:

Pacific Tranquility
By Andrea Damic
~ "There's something soothing about the ocean when it's calm, an infinite sparkling mirror." Fiji, July 2022.

After Reading a Young Poet
By Sanjeev Sethi
~ "...When I read you, I read myself..."

Relentless Love
By Dharmpal Mahendra Jain
~ "...love every mother wishes for her offspring..."

Cheap Ways to Feel Young Again
By Richard LeDue
~ "...death for me is a cartoon mouse hole in the wall..."

Where Have You Gone, Confucius?
By John Tustin
~ "... Why were you born, my child?..."

I got a rejection letter
By DS Maolalaí
~ "...stock letter nonsense with the name penciled in..."

She Dies
By Amrita Valan
~ "... So fold up Aladdin’s carpet..."

Mildred
By Ralph Bland
~ The end creeps up on us, and when it arrives, all we have left is the past...

Starman
By John Grey
~ "...smothered his fire, turned his lights gray..."

Jasmine
By Stephen Kingsnorth
~ "...How dare these petals risk the sharps..."

ZiG, How Did You SwiG Your Way Into Existence?
By Ndaba Sibanda
~ Zimbabwe has launched a new currency backed by gold...