Persephone by Elizabeth Moller
“Persephone” by Elizabeth Moller “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own We are on the road to recovery. No more shock therapy, no more round-the-clock supervision, no more being surrounded by other crazies who got pulled naked and homeless off the streets and wrested into...
Woman Finds Her Face by Lois Marie Harrod
“Woman Finds Her Face” by Lois Marie Harrod when she unfolds the tablecloth and then the stains of her bones, scapula, radius, pelvis, and she realizes she has been thinking about sorrow again. How she doubles it around herself, belly and back. What she can’t change, punctures circling forehead and scalp. It’s cold outside, ice sheets the gouge down by the river, 30-degree drop into hardness, her swollen...
Agoraphobia by Susan Austin
“Agoraphobia” by Susan Austin Don’t paint summer the color of blue flax then the color of goldeneye, paint two broad black strokes a river dammed at the end of the porch, a rhomboid tilted by the tenacious lure of dandelions, and if there must be a figure, paint the figure a triangle woman with childish arms, her hair a chaos of wildflowers, the whole of summer falling through her hands. ...
Freshman by Sue Churchill
“Freshman” by Sue Churchill She stood through the whole club meeting— the officers all announcing themselves–never spoke, as if not entitled to a word or a chair. She was small and slim—fawn-like still, where the seniors, now they were does, and they knew it. She’d had her hair streaked grey, an odd shade for a fawn, the color of ash, or a boat hull-up in the sun. She looked out and away, thinking of...
Indra’s Net by Ji Hyang Padma
“Indra’s Net” by Ji Hyang Padma In Zen, one image we use to describe our interdependence with each other is Indra’s Net. Imagine a net: its horizontal threads representing time, the vertical threads representing space. Where each of these threads meet, there is a crystal which is reflecting, not only every other crystal, but every reflection of every other crystal. In this way, we are intricately connected to...
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