Heat an abscess of heat settles without a breezethe body sheds all of its excesses,bodies not conditioned to thermal airshut down,sweating bodiesrelieving the tediumof hot lazy down and dirty on clean sheetslubricating just below the surfacemelting away the doldrums of dry season decidedly uncanadian, but if you’re hot,working up a sweat,heat becomes a friend […]
Bidding Farewell To My Singer By Margaret Van Every Mahadevi Prem at work on her 78-year-old Singer I’ve arrived at the inevitable point in life where I’m wanting to give cherished possessions away. Better to do it now than have others haul everything off to a consignment shop after I’m gone. This way I
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Addicted To Chance By Sue Schools This morning a fantastic sunrise glimmered over Lake Chapala while the moon shimmered in the other part of the sky … my personal paradise and I am blessed to be here. Then, why am I blue? I live in gated community up above the main Guadalajara highway, on
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Getting On With Getting On By Christy Wiseman *I’m so sorry to hear of your lovely wife Lindy’s death. It is a sentiment I’m sending more frequently as I age. The name might be different and your condolences may have been over a spouse, significant other, child, or someone near and dear who was a
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Red Duct Magic By Katina Pontikes The drive from Lake Charles, Louisiana to DeRidder, Louisiana is only forty-five minutes long. When I was a child, it seemed to take hours. Farm fences displayed brightly colored ads for Brylcreem hair pomade and Barbasol shaving cream. The colorful signs provided a break in the monotony for
The National Bird? Ben Franklin, it might be recalled,Entreated all his fellow men:“Forget about the eagle bald,Wild turkey is American. “Bald eagles are bad characters,But turkeys are respectable.They won’t be viewed as predators,And turkeys are delectable. “Wild turkeys winging overheadAre such a sight to seeCompared to one lone eagle, Jeb,Perched high in yonder tree.”
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JOHN HERBERT JONES, JR. When born in Billings, Montana on October 24, 1929, John supposedly took a single breath of air and began singing…at least according to his mother. “And he was the only one in the family who could sing on pitch,” she added, comparing his voice to those of his four sisters: three older,
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The Poet’s Curse The muted hush of night,the throb of silence.The “hiss” that hurts.The incessant poundingof a dripping faucet.In the relentless din,a lone candle flickers.Seeks to befriend,quill in hand,the poet? Bleary eyed, ponders,the die cast,forever set?Its sense relegatedmired in the mundane,and yet, onceever so infrequentlya fleeting truth.Nevermore than a thread,a straw in a stack,searches,
Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez THE ZIMMERMAN COMMUNIQUE—One of History’s Most Fascinating Moments— German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman In January of 1917, something occurred that might have forever damaged the relationship between the United States and Mexico. It preceded the United States’ entry into the First World War, a conflict that would go down
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The Fable Of The Complainer Who Travelled A Long Distance By Neil McKinnon Once upon a time, there was a Loud Complainer named Mortimer who, late at night, knocked on the door of a Stand-up Guy who was monikered by the designation, Al. Al knew the Loud Complainer as a griper and grumbler
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