It’s the last day of October, and the day of the dead is approaching. I can feel my own skeleton inside my skin. I can feel other people’s as well when they are close enough to touch. Maybe some time I’ll get back to that thought. For now, the wind and sun are competing for [...]
October 26, 2009
poetry by Craig Muderlak, Boulder images by Bernie Fanelli, Arvada Echolocation My voice ricochets in a cavernous mind Like echolocation in a bat cave. Its resonance absorbed by solitary ears In a desert of darkness. A loquacious, muddled reverie Less perceptible than a bat’s ultrasonic cry. Infinite, silent postulations As unavailing as dandruff without a [...]
October 23, 2009
by Sam Kulla I met documentary filmmaker and novelist Daniel Emmerson in a hotel bar in Shanghai while he was working with Joel Nelson on a series about how people learn English throughout the world. After spending a few days in and out of his presence at the same bar, as well as a night [...]
October 20, 2009
3 poems by Jesse Cameron Alick, East Coast Editor 1. Alpha Male You miss your dog So we bark at each other Back and forth All night long Under the tropical moon Until people wonder How we could ever be friends In the first place. We’re just both used to getting what we want. Some [...]
October 17, 2009
by Anthony Brunello, Sacramento photo by Haley Brunello I have heard that in the movie Sideways the hero likens himself to the characteristics of the tempermental and fragile Pinot Noir grape while eschewing the straight-forward pleasures of the noble Merlot grape. I have never seen the movie, I do not want it to persuade my [...]
October 14, 2009
by CC Elder, Bellingham, Washington “Okey dokey artichokey.” That’s what my 2 and a quarter year old thinks. She says this as we’re getting in the truck to harvest some potatoes just outside of town. Once we’re digging, I’m almost having a hard time unearthing them at the pace she is throwing them in the [...]
October 12, 2009
by Sam Kulla Editor’s Note: This is the last in our three part series on Claude Alick’s work, philosophy of independent publishing, and life history. His most recent book, Dancing With The Yumawalli, is available through bookstores everywhere. “In life, human beings are the same,” says Claude Alick. “They bring up the notion of race [...]
October 31, 2009