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Dispatch #077

By SF Creative Writing Institute on May 14, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Shadow by Mir Yashar Seyedbagheri Phil sees his shadow. I see shadows too. Older sisters, mothers, smiles, and hugs over Zoom. Shadows of I-love-yous, words crackling, and promises to see each other […]

Dispatch #076

By SF Creative Writing Institute on May 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Winter 2021 Alien Nations by Gerard Sarnat i. Otherness Plague tanka   Entering Year II, mid-septuagenarian’s grown weary spending precious time sequestered — not hugging/ kissing loved, dying.   * ii. West […]

Dispatch #075

By SF Creative Writing Institute on May 11, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 #074

By SF Creative Writing Institute on May 10, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Ghosts by Rowena Choy Henry At the beginning of the pandemic in New York City I felt a searing sense of deja vu when I heard the stories shared by the nurses […]

Dispatch #073

By SF Creative Writing Institute on April 13, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By SF Creative Writing Institute on April 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By SF Creative Writing Institute on April 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 #070

By SF Creative Writing Institute on April 5, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Platinum City by Hongri Yuan Translated by: Manu Mangattu Ah! Of iridescent gems of time The heavenly road you paved light! In a kingdom of stars, I found my home. In the […]

Dispatch #069

By SF Creative Writing Institute on March 30, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

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 #068

By SF Creative Writing Institute on March 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Covid Camouflage by Angie Bell oh what an odd masquerade with eyes that wrinkle in smiles while the real smile is disguised and we dance six feet apart ever hesitant longing to […]

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