Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory. Show all posts
Sunday, February 01, 2026

JANUARY BOUQUET

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by Katherine Smith The only antidote for America  is to go outside in the freezing cold winter and dream of the most beautiful city on earth...
Friday, December 12, 2025

A HOUSE IN GAZA

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by Christopher Woods Shutterstock file photo In her mind is the locket She thinks about so much. Inside it, wrapped in blue ribbon, A single...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

AUGUST

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by Juditha Dowd This evening it occurs to me I ought to call my mom and dad because it’s been a while. And for a moment they are not gone so...
Friday, December 23, 2022

RECUERDO

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by Julian O. Long Hanging my heart’s wassail outdoors again once more shall I light tonight’s candle to honor the Maccabees? I, who am neith...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

ABDUCTED GOLDFISH

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by Kenton K. Yee Dean Young, 1955-2022 In The Art of Recklessness (Graywolf, 2010), the poet Dean Young's exhilarating book-length essa...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

HEAT WAVE

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by W. Luther Jett Muffled staccato— summer voices too distant to be understood—I try not to stress the circuitry mid-day— douse the lights, ...
Monday, July 18, 2022

AS A TEN-YEAR-OLD OHIO GIRL

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by Laura Grace Weldon file photo… not the author I lived the lives I read in books. I wandered English moors, raced my horse past Russian wo...
Friday, April 29, 2022

REMEMBERING CATASTROPHE

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by Anita Lerek “The Lost Library Forest,” a painting by Luis Peres Mother, how much time is left for us in the forest library,  where master...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

THE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF WAR

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by Katherine West  “A Room of Memory” by Chiharu Shiota (2009): old wooden windows, group exhibition Hundred Stories about Love , 21st Cent...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

A SOLITARY MAN

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by Mary K O'Melveny For the past 27 years,  Dennis Wayne Hope  (above) has been in a Texas prison cell that is somewhere between the siz...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

TO KNOW A MONARCH

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by Phyllis Klein To know it only as a photograph, a memory. Never to witness again a community of millions clustered  on Eucalyptus branches...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

SUBURBAN WOMEN

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 by Laura Winkelspecht Suburban women wake up early to exercise, load the dishwasher while brushing their teeth, and dress their kids on the...
Monday, July 20, 2020

TWO VIEWS

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by Jonel Abellanosa Do we get to decide what world we live in? Old world babblers of peace and quiet, birdsong in our neighborhoo...
Friday, May 08, 2020

QUARANTINE AUBADE

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by Juditha Dowd "Lifeline" by Pascal Campion The trucker is hauling food. We often hear him down on the river road aroun...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

FLYOVER

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by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory As the F-16s flew over Newark, I wondered how many of my grandfather’s friends who, too, lied about thei...
Friday, April 10, 2020

FORGOTTEN

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by Tricia Knoll I forget the name of the first boy who kissed me, which books I read by Jane Austen during that summer the l7-year ...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

FACE MASKS

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by Ed Goodell  When I stare at your masked mouth I think of the girls I’d speak with on the phone That hung from the dining-room...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

CHRISTMAS CAROLS

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by Joan Mazza I’m listening to non-stop holiday songs between commercials for diamonds, pet pajamas, end-of-year car closeouts. Wh...
Monday, June 10, 2019

HISTORY

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by Howard Winn A D-Day commemoration on the beach of Arromanches in France on June 6, 2019, marking the 75th anniversary of the Allied ...
Friday, April 12, 2019

PRESENCE IN THE ABSENCE

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by Mary K O'Melveny Illustration by Andy Gilmore for The New York Times , October 4, 2018. Stephen Hawking said that particles tha...