by Paul Brookes Her fingers make an unbroken runover the walls of our home: “You live in a strange world.No bullet holes for my fingers to play with.No blast holes to climb through when playing hide and seek.” I reflect,“You get used to it.My GrandadContinue Reading
Like many youngsters growing up in the Seventies and Eighties, my political landscape was deeply shaped by the seemingly interminable issues in the Middle East. My own teen years were influenced deeply by both Jewish and Arabic cultures and I owe much of myContinue Reading
truth? i fall from the planet from time to time. take trips out of skin. Off planet. i wish i could say it was a euphoric float. there’S texture i crave / living in this drone state / creamy smooth alignment / mouthContinue Reading
by Jason Stelzner Sister, I hear your voice but cannot see you here, where you walk beside me; here where you forded the last lonely river, leaving me lost on mortality’s bitter shore. Here amidst June’s high water and hatching eaglets’ cries.Continue Reading
Put up that that that thing, what is it you’re reading? Just some trash, Auntie. Morning. Want some tea? Where’s Eddy? He needs some money. He passed on some time ago. In Vancouver. Mum told you. Mum? Gerry? Geraldine? Oh, no no, Dar. YesContinue Reading
by Elizabeth Kiem Anna Pasternak rights an ancestral wrong, but can’t help playing matchmaker . . . Anna Pasternak concedes it proudly: “I’m a hopeless romantic. It’s in the genes.” Pasternak is, yes, related to Boris, the rock-star poet of 20th century Russia. She’s alsoContinue Reading