The Cleaning Lady by Marina Rubin

The Cleaning Lady by Marina Rubin

Art: Elina Ghanbari THE CLEANING LADY like a phantom Mr. Clean she came over once every two weeks, polished the old creaking parquet, swept the dust off the foreign fiction, scrubbed the sink, changed the sheets, placed chocolates on my pillow and along with an...
Ode to CR and TS: A Surrealist Elegy by Abraheem Dittu

Ode to CR and TS: A Surrealist Elegy by Abraheem Dittu

Art: Conversations about the Dance by Gerburg Garmann ODE TO CR AND TS: A SURREALIST ELEGY   About the author: Abraheem Dittu is a Pakistani-American poet from Los Angeles. He’s previously been published in The Blue Door Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, Flypaper...
Hummingbirds by Jeremy Gregersen

Hummingbirds by Jeremy Gregersen

Art: Photography by Marie Dashkova Hummingbirds I remember reading recently of how hummingbirds only suckle from lilac and lavender blooms for their fuel, their nectarous urge merely the gruel a weary, calloused farmhand might sock away, mopping a soaked and furrowed...
Mourning Dove by Heikki Huotari

Mourning Dove by Heikki Huotari

Art: Snowball from the Daily Magnificence Series by Çağrı Yılmaz MOURNING DOVE   About the author:  Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics. In a past century, he attended a one-room country school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower....