The Great Aunts in the North Country “dainty women” a tale taller than the ladder Great Aunt Maud climbed to…
Just Another Night On Hazen Street: A Poem By Robert Beveridge
JUST ANOTHER NIGHT ON HAZEN ST. In the dream we are ten and the world ends at the front door…
Beam: A Poem By Susanna Kittredge
Beam The home inspector calls it a mortice beam or girder, says it is cracked or compromised, says to feed…
Trophy Wife: A Story By Bill Vernon
Penny’s kitchen clutter bugged Hubert so much, he dropped her off at the airport, raced back home, and immediately took…
Still Night: A Poem by Mike Lewis-Beck
STILL NIGHT No one out this still night new snow no longer falling on these brick streets, long covered. My…
The House: A Story By Elaine Barnard
The house gloomed in my mind like some ossified memory. It was there I’d grown up and fled from…
The Painting: A Poem By John Johnson
The Painting Because I hang atop the landing in John and Jennie’s home, I smell her earthy tomato sauce and…
Drama at the House of Books: A Story By Mark Tulin
With a permanent limp like Quasimodo, I walked through the rotating library door. I moved past the security guard, who…
Land Song: A Poem By Meredith Kurz
Land Song The pool was dug out leaving a deep well in our backyard. We built raised beds because my…
When I Get The Quilt Out Of My Cedar Chest: A Poem By Laurie Kolp
When I Get the Quilt Out of My Cedar Chest Sometimes, I uncover the past with a quilt handsewn with…
Old Stuff: A Story by Thomas Elson
“Have the movers box everything up,” my daughter told my grandsons a few days before we left. “We’ll take…
Where Derrida’s Buried: A Poem By William Doreski
Where Derrida’s Buried Why are we sighing over books when a short walk away the sea exhales a thousand shades…
Laying On of Hands: A Poem by Karla Linn Merrifield
Laying on of Hands I want to know who punched the holes. Was it a child in rage playing? Or,…
Important Ramshackle: A Poem by Diane Funston
Important Ramshackle The old kitchen was a place of important ramshackle. Gray Formica table in the center surrounded by nailhead…
Off the beaten Path: A Poem by Peter Goodwin
Off The Beaten Path In a land full of history— history has moved on— a shrinking world, these small towns—…
Homeowner’s Song: A Poem by Juan Pablo Mobili
Homeowner’s Song Someday I will pine about the perils of an old house but for now I will go on…
Lunch at 1270 Fifth Avenue: A Poem by Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich
Photograph “Town I” by Allene Nichols LUNCH AT 1270 FIFTH AVENUE Now I can feel the heaviness of her right…
You Can Keep Your Tulips: A Poem by Tiel Ansari
You Can Keep Your Tulips Does everyone have a different way they know it’s spring— for some, when each corner…
Patchwork: A Poem by Diane Jackman
Patchwork cut stitch sandwich quilt give Close set blocks of log cabin Frame Sunbonnet Sue as she flies Her kite…
Peace Movements: a poem by Karla Linn Merrifield
This will not stop the tanks in Iraq but bounces on wings of early butterflies, dragonflies off Army steel, olive,…
Heron: a poem by Ed Meek
All wings and legs, You take your stilted stance atop a branch that seems too thin to bear your weight…