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This Late November.

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by David Bolton.

Let’s see through the wind-streaked pane
last leaves of maple burgundy, rippled skies
chill rain dancing on slate.
Hear silence ravish the drought,
drop by drop.
even squirrels give pause to this aquatic peace.
old T.S. was right:  winter does keep us warm
dreams do slip through cracks during this lack of light.
Touch the casket of bark.  Remember Spring
when branches tilted sun-ward and hope sprouted anew.
now the change of seasons, yet within trickles a spirit.
Drink deep lest the soul turn brittle and weak.
legions of hate have penetrated Babylon’s gates.
In all languages and passages, El Diablo entrances
the hearts of the lost.
Remember Revelations:  As light follows darkness
the Tree of Knowledge arises.

Bright Vicious Past.

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by Mark Benedict. At eighty-five, lingering at a table in the dining hall after lunch, Winston realized that he was probably immortal. It was a wretched thought. Every room at the senior home reeked of cleaning fumes and was painted in hideously swirling pastels. A few seats down sat a security guard reading a paperback. […]

Testing the Medicine.

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by David D. Horowitz. Hello! Hello? HELLO? HEL-lo. HELLO!!! “Hello” can be said in countless ways and might convey joy, ambivalence, sarcasm, love, or surprise, depending as much on a speaker’s inflection as the word’s definition. Yes, but that’s true of almost any word or phrase. Yes, it is, as any skillful actor or politician […]

Dr. Toby’s TV Time, Wasted.

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by Jim Meirose. Dr. Toby VanDer-Uncle dried the last fork off his after dinner washing job, draped the towel off of the drainrack, and moved toward his big LiftyBoy reclinering TV viewing seat, hoping upon hope that a fine TV program would distract him from the bitterly-hot, but thankfully fading, disappointment—and also tinged with some […]

Sight Words.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli. Yes, but this was some big find, how these make more. You, me—we see what they can do. Then have at it. Too many did little to help. I am down, blue. Eat up that funny look like an orange. One for each of us. Run away and go get them […]

The Christ Ultimatum.

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by Peter Onelio. There is a choice, a deadly, diabolical decision built into the psyche of humanity that comes in the form of an ultimatum. It strips the individual of their right to live a thoroughly free life, and it lives in the blind spot of the collective unconscious, the veritable black hole at the […]

The Mold Cape.

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by David Selzer. In what is now the back garden of a house – a between-the-wars semi – in Mold, a town in North East Wales, a gang of labourers, one hundred and seventy years ago, hired to demolish a burial mound – known as Bryn yr Ellyllon, Goblin’s Hill – uncovered what seemed to […]

Sic et Non.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. The question to be debated is this: is Peter Abelard an overlooked luminary of philosophy, or not? There can be little question that Abelard is overlooked. In his eight-volume History of Philosophy, Father Frederick Copleston mentions him not at all, although he devotes two entire volumes to medieval philosophy. In his […]

Miso in Mashed Potatoes, Oh My.

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Just when I think I have learned everything there is to know about the potato, my arrogance is checked. This is part of what makes life such a pleasure. There it was. A new way to make mashed potatoes. The Dear Husband loves potatoes in all sizes, shapes, forms, and methods of cookery. I myself […]

World on Fire.

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This morning we all woke to a world wide environmental crisis. Other crises, sure, yeah, but they stem from the first one. When danger threatens from an uncontrollable source—weather, fire, earthquake, flood—anxiety rises exponentially. There is a biological response. For humans as animals, the biological response is fear. For humans as human, the response is […]