INCOMING: THE GAME by Michael Brownstein The sun beckons us outside, a spring wind waves its hand, so we go–leaving the fortress into the world of confusion, disharmony, angst, and fear. Our […]
Dispatch #089
Dispatch #084
So Long to a Sorry Year by Barbara Kazdan I feel blah. Not sad. Not anything. Think I’ve depleted my reserve of good cheer. Which for me is saying a lot. All […]
Dispatch #080
The Revolt of the Homeless by Gary Beck The young patrol officer and the tired, cynical Sergeant slowly herded the homeless off the subway car. The young officer kept saying: “C’mon guys. […]
Dispatch #075
Bald Rapunzel by Robert E. Petras Me—leaning over the balcony, Confined for a 14-day sentence To the garage apartment, Found guilty by nose swab, The negative positive of these times. My […]
Dispatch #073
THE GUITAR MAN IN QUARANTINE by John Grey I’m wary of doorknobs and the breath of others but this wood I’d trust with my life. I’m nervous putting my hands most places […]
Dispatch #072
WHEN THE DARKNESS by Michael H. Brownstein Everything is tumbling to an end, a rock fall detour, water cascades, a glint of silver wash and obsidian. Soon darkness will no longer prevail. […]
Dispatch #071
Blue Mask Seas by Stephen Mead (for my Friend, Tom Stephany, taken by Covid on World AIDS Day 2020) They are so easy to picture: that ridge for the nose a wave’s […]
Dispatch #069
Covid Pariah by Mark Tulin I am a Covid pariah, an uncomfortable outcast, an undesirable, a black crow, wild and untamed, solemn in a strange and foreign land where people don’t care […]
Dispatch #067
CHANGE by Marlene Waldock Yesterday I walked freely In grocery stores Through the malls Today I am masked Afraid to talk to others Staying six feet apart Uncertain about the […]
Dispatch #064
And the Pleiades, Midnight By: Alexandra Kostoulas Moon has set and Pleiades: middle night, the hour goes by, […]
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