Boy in an Old Photograph
“It is his last photo,/ but the camera keeps clicking/ every year without him/ in the dark lens.” Poem of the Week (September 9), by Mir Mahfuz Ali.
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Harry James
“Everything is stilled, when dancers/ stop and listen to the liquid gold…” Weekend poem, by Milton P. Ehrlich.
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Darwin Mother
“Darwin Mother had a peculiar taste for silver and dandelions. And in a yellow house down the street, she lived all alone…” Story of the Week (September 5), by C.G. Fewston.
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‘The Mirror’ (Зеркало, 1975)
“The scenes plunge into each other, cut/ by cut: the surge of the forest into/ the goose step of the soldiers…” Poem of the Week (September 2), by Ilma Rakusa. Translated from German by Paul-Henri Campbell.
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Clock-Watching
“It’s Friday, and I want to hold/ the day down by its neck to keep it still…” Weekend poem, by Sarah Fletcher.
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The Courage Necessary
“They wanted to live on the Moon, so they did. One day, they just got into their rocket ship, and they left…” Story of the Week (August 29), by Scott Kolp.
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The making of newcomers
“Did woodpeckers,/ you wonder in your story,/ invent morse code? ” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Hubert Moore.
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Mary’s Bar
“The thirsty/ will pay her ten bucks for a Smirnoff,//five for a lukewarm Corona. The faint/ stagger out to the sunlight…” Weekend poem, by Laurie Barton.
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How We Killed The Sailor
“Today in the besieged city fifteen people were killed by one fiery ball… No one had wanted to save them. I’ll see their faces tomorrow in the newspaper obituaries.” Story of the Week (August 22), by Alma Lazarevska.
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Happiness
“I truly/ Like this age of ergonomic skies, skies extending/ over pleasant mountain ranges + ordered lakes…” Poem of the Week (August 19), by Dominic Hale.
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