An Unexpected Date by Albert Abdul-Barr Wang
For Jaclyn and her family The July afternoon sat on Chicago with a humid, brass-weighted insistence that made the stone facades along Michigan Avenue seem to exhale, as if the city’s mineral skeleton had been warmed through and now released a slow, invisible steam, and Eli, who had told himself he loved summer for its […]
At the pier, waiting for apologies by Isha Mital
Where not even shadows remainOf the ships that have sailedYet I, somehow, managed to lingerIt’s been quietAll voices hushedHere at the pierThe screams have been muffedAnchored to the groundAll calls, only echoesVapors gone byOnly I remainSturdier than everTrue as the sun on the horizonWaitingFor the spring that’s been promisedCreeping like ivy up the wallsOf my […]
Portrait by Jake Tanda
Sometimes I notice a gap between her and me. I’ve known her for two years but she’s known me for one. She treats her friends with the same warmth and patience that I do. I don’t lose my temper with others and neither does she. She reads more books than I do but that’s because […]
Scripture by Makoto Kata
completely committing ourselves to being is the home of God we find holiness when our tastebuds meet honey, when you call out your cats name and they come, when unspoken rules are followed in the name of play, when you feel hearts touch, and numinous betweenness is more real than you or i the relationship […]
On my daily walk by Vera Backer
On my daily walkI came past the wavy river:The sun was glistening on the rippleswith the light of it burning in my face.I stopped walking, to capture the image Oh, how soothing the feeling was to my eyes! Lately, I have wanted to take you to my favorite spot there,at nighttime, underneath the moonlight.The reflection […]
