Thursday, July 30, 2009

MAD DOGS

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A Sonnet by Barbara Lightner Foaming-at-the-mouth rabid, the Blue Dog Democrats are running in packs on the outskirts of town, uninterested ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

GRIM CASUALTY IN THE STRUGGLE

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by J. D. Mackenzie Skip, an exceptional student remembers the walls of his junior high filled with images of inspiration glossy photos of th...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

R@NDOM REPERTORY

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by James Penha After Merce Cunningh@m (1919-2009) Progr@m:       Cross Currents       Inlets       Ch@nging Steps EVENT NO. 1: in current ...
Monday, July 27, 2009

GRACE

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by David Chorlton At this the time of year the shadows of clouds fall lightly on the mountains and sit for a while on the slopes whose rock ...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

ECLIPSING A COOL JULY DAY

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by Earl J. Wilcox Days like ours recently when July weather has turned cool as May we’re told global warming is at work, though Apocalyptic ...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

IN FAR OFF ROME

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by Kim Doyle Cato pronounced their doom. Concluding most of his speeches with a Thor, son of Odin phrase; like “Cathago delenda est.” Cartha...
Friday, July 24, 2009

SLICES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

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by Scot Siegel When I reach for a basket of oranges, why does my shadow conjure a face bloodied by bees? Sitting up in the dark, why do I se...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

CALL TO PRAYER

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by Susanna Lang At nightfall the roofs in Tehran cry out to God and candles whisper in the windows— Where have they hidden the bodies of our...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

IS THIS WHAT TURNING FIFTY BRINGS

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by David W. Rushing Is this what turning fifty brings— rage, madness, and the realization that much of one’s life has been squandered in the...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

THE HEALTH INSURANCE QUESTION AT BOUNTIFUL BREAD

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by Steve Hellyard Swartz Over there’s the old man who presides as if he were the host He gets all his opinions in the pages of the Post His ...
Monday, July 20, 2009

IN TODAY'S NEWS CYCLE

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by Lylanne Musselman There's no taming a ventriloquist moon. Mother Earth's little sidekick seeks to shine in headline news eclipsin...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

LIP SERVICE

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by Andrew Hilbert Today the biased, celebrity media hounds bow to Cronkite as he goes down. Still, there is news about the state of things b...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

CONFIRMATION HEARINGS

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by Helen Padway The gentlemen in dark suits and conservative ties, red, blue, striped or checked, keep throwing stones into a deep pool of c...
Friday, July 17, 2009

ROBERT MCNAMARA IN HELL

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by Jon Wesick Wire-rimmed glasses               brilliantine hair map on an S-shaped country Strange whiz kid taming the yellow-eyed w...