One Breath, One Road

Photo and poem by Ana Fatturi Walking with beauty and grace A dandelion puff dancing gently in the breeze How quickly that pretty façade can fly apart Living by one breath, one road That’s all you know how to do But you’ll do it with style So many mistakes but the best choices Desires have [...]

lab notes: dream skating

Written by Shannon Driscoll Photos taken at the Berrics by Erin Blinn & Josh Russell Special thanks to UPRISE, the Berrics, Erin Blinn & Josh Russell “i thought, that’s the most stupidest idea i ever heard.  but fuck it, i’m down.” was the first thought of 18 year old angel alvarado when he heard the plan.  the [...]

Winter Solstice

By Adam Zuehlke at the Mysterium. With photos on film expired before photographer’s birth. A poem I wrote (after midnight) paying homage to Wynne Renz’s style. Sobriety = Local Hip-Hop = Chimneys = Darkness = In-between Beauty = Books = Fireworks in the woods = Cassoulet = Vanished Friends = Pensive = Gnarled & Rustic [...]

Surreal Reality

  An interview with painter Luke C. Lamar by Sam Kulla When Luke asked me to interview him, I hesitated.  I’ve known him and checked out his work for way too long to ask any unbiased questions.  I said no.  Then I went on my way, thought about it, and decided to just go with [...]

Unknown Unfair Contest

Photos by Zoe Aparicio with anonymous meditations by a thoughtful  mobile informant I drove through the valley watching the sprayplanes and in awe of the rowcrops as far as the eye could see in the endless valley. Up over the grapevine with all the trucks. It’s an ugly god forsaken freeway, I stopped to pee [...]

By yourself on the roof

*Conditions by San Juan de la Cruz, photo by Sam Kulla Could be a Sunday afternoon A far away dog barks at nothing forever The saddest sound, some say. Could be any other day or time And there’s no dogs, not even silent ones Either way you are listening still You attempt to recall the [...]