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Featured Poetry

Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal

February 26, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories

Tagged memories, memory, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, Portugal, Travel, vacationLeave a comment
Poetry

Sandra M. Castillo – Christmas, 1970

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Cuban-born Sandra M. Castillo writes about her first Christmas in the United States, when she was just eight years old.

Tagged grief, home, Homesickness, Immigration, loss, memory, PoetryLeave a comment
Bayou
Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by memories from her country of origin, Haiti, Tamerlie Philippe's faceless paintings are an ambivalent, diminishing recollection of home.

Tagged childhood, faces, fading, Haiti, impermanence, memory, painting, transience1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

My Backspaces

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.

Tagged age, Awakening, choice, memory, reflection, truth, WisdomLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Gabriela De Paz – Enredadera

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gabriela De Paz's flower paintings are portraits of emotions and a homage to the perpetual flux of the human condition.

Tagged color, emotion, flowers, memory, nature, painting, portraitsLeave a comment
Morning Toast
Way-Seeking Mind

Morning Toast

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY VINCENT PUZICK I remember the smell of toast. I was in the middle of my morning minutes of Transcendental Meditation when my mother got home from her graveyard shift at the hospital.

Tagged addiction, adolescence, Awakening, childhood, Meditation, memory, morning, motherLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Brandon McQuade – Two Whiskies

August 8, 2021August 7, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Brandon McQuade's poem, 'Two Whiskies', is a melancholy narrative of the author's dream of a late friend.

Tagged Death, death poem, dream, dreaming, Dreams, Friend, friendship, grief, loss, memories, memory, PoetryLeave a comment
WG Sebald
Book Bits

‘A Heart Slowly Reduced to Embers’: W. G. Sebald on the Fires That Burn Inside and Outside

August 6, 2021August 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

"From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin wane and when it will fade away."

Tagged ecology, environment, Fire, forests, memory, nature writing, pilgrimageLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samara Landau – Happenstance

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

'Happenstance' by Samara Landau is a work of complexity, pattern, and rhythm, set around fate, coincidence, and loss.

Tagged accident, coincidence, destiny, happenstance, hike, hiking, loss, memory, outdoors, strangers2 Comments

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