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Sleepless Nocturne.

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by Lana Hechtman Ayers.

 

An evergreen army surrounds our house,
sky a white that belies night.

Air tastes bitter green as grass,
damp on the tongues of my skin.

A vinegar wind ripples the moon’s
all too fragile halo.

Sour sax notes of hound dog’s howls
jolt from a neighbor’s yard.

These early late hours
must make it hard for rabbits to sleep.

Or do rabbits sleep only in our dreams?
What if we never ever sleep?

 

Urgent Patience.

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by David D. Horowitz. Each year many locations on Earth set new heating records. Our planet is heating; disastrous consequences loom; and many political leaders live in denial about it. Time is not on our side. Each year, conflicts, born of ancient hatreds and nurtured grudges, simmer and sicken, like cancer which is hoped to […]

Passages.

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by Barry Vitcov.   Regardless of how hard you try the second hand still clicks seconds the minute hand sweeps minutes but the hour hand seems to quicken a beat each day Your old watch crystal reflects fleeting images, the façade of memories like ephemeral glitters a morphing countenance transformed with the tick-tock rhythm of […]

Removal.

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by Lance Mazmanian.   To wake in a shipwreck has dimensions to sort. Time is always near, never far. The shore is unknown and has nothing to offer, to anyone. I have walked up and down, back and forward, deep into surf and rocks that themselves seem lost. If only the Celtic Sea again, lights […]

Indefinitely.

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by Cheryl Vargas.   The legal size manilla envelope is too long to fit in the basket alongside my other folders, its size is as awkward as its contents. Inside are two long pieces of paper weightless, a sparrow’s feather. I am pretty sure my brother’s death certificate can be shredded now. Five years is […]

Mourning in Time.

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I can’t help feeling it’s ironic that Marissa and I settled on “Time on Our Side” as the theme for this issue, since in the meantime, sadness has overtaken EAP like a blanket of fog. Too much death. Nothing we can do can change that. To think we can do away with death is to […]

Fooling Days.

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by Barry Vitcov. What did you save when the sun set later than the day before? Were the colors muted, less vivid or spectacular? A blur of lengthening shadows? Do longer days rise or set more gradually, with subdued edges. Do we become more indistinct in daylight? More defined in the dark like etchings in […]

Only Persist.

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If you’re a certain age, you might remember a party gag called the Chinese Finger Trap. It’s a simple bamboo cylinder that traps your fingers at both ends. The usual reaction to being trapped like that is to pull your fingers away from each other, making it impossible to free yourself. The only way to […]

How I Love the Potato (Dessert Style).

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As many of my friends know, I’m a particular sucker for recipes, or variations on recipes, that are a.) simple, b.) made with ingredients on hand or easy to acquire and c.) slightly unpredictable. Also, delicious. All of these qualifications are met by a tweaking of the classic Italian dessert, turinois. Now, turinois is supposed […]

Saving Daylight.

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by Benjamin White. The Golden Age Is gilded greed, So save your integrity In a shoebox Under your bed Or in your top drawer With your secret hopes, Or buried In the back yard Where your mind And memories Intersect and meet To redirect the heat you feel When you peel the sunshine From the […]