Spring Ode with Robins and Mallards
byMy common town looks so different when I wander it with a curious stranger, telling the usual stories, how we took the beer money…
Sonnet VIII
by Chris BullardAll functions at borderline normal, the old heap keeps turning over although the needle is approaching big E. Man-killing Achilles hasn’t caught up with…
Apple Jacks, Affairs, and Separation
by Katie Rendon KahnIt wasn’t the nights spent alone that forced my decision to be made but the mornings he came home. In the night, there was…
Death & Taxes
by Jennifer CrowBut you have missed the snowdrops’ promised rise Again, buried me in a blizzard of forms As surely as you have gone to the worms,…
Pale Blue Dot
by Uche OgbujiThe hierarchy of round things roots in eyes Held close, so close that blinking heaves a gale; Therefrom to lips and hips and on…
Only fear can defeat life
by the daily asteriskI must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,…
Fear itself
by the daily asteriskThis is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in…
Holy Week in Uganda
by Katie Karnehm-EshSunrises in Uganda happen suddenly. On the equator, dawn is dark, turning pink at the eastern corners at the sky at 6:00, 6:30. Then…
Willingly move downward
by the daily asteriskThe adage that the exalted will be humbled and vice versa is not a tidbit of proverbial wisdom such as, “Pride cometh before a…
Helps us feel safer
by the daily asteriskWhen something happens that is “unthinkable”—so inconsistent with our view of the world that we can’t imagine it—we do predictable things to make sense…