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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
seconds and minutes
and the slowly diminishing movement
of hours

 What some make of time
is artificial and invented
by those who believe
measurement is incremental
an understandable assessment

Yet, you know time accumulates
whether counted or not
each tick a testament
each tock a whisper of eternity

 

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 […]

America the Beautiful.

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by Pete Garay. Way back when, an invisible hand lent shape to the world and, over time, balance, color and movement were blended in. By the end of this chaotic and sweaty job, I think our majesties   were well fashioned. In 1895, Katharine Lee Bates recognized all this and as such aptly put words to […]

Milk: An Udderly Legendairy Fluid.

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by Gabby Woehr. When considering the liquids one consumes in a day, there is one that stands alone as the ultimate beverage. Throughout generations, classes, and locations, citizens of the world have united under the banner of a holy liquid: milk. Milk is the most common drink, demonstrating its cultural and historical significance. The masses […]

The Light.

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by Tom Ball. We all lived for the daylight except for a few people who spent their time living only in the night. On our Moon, Artemis, in Hendrix’s Star System, there were 40-hour days and there were two Suns so there was usually about 32 hours of light each day. Most of us got […]

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 te back yard Where you mind And memories Intersect and meet To redirect the heat you feel When you peel the sunshine From the […]

Manzanita (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. Certain things stick most to my memory. I can bring up pictures of places I’ve lived, of people I’ve loved, of meals I’ve eaten. I still remember meeting my best friend of almost fifty years. It was at a Chinese restaurant. Ya Su Yuan. The dumplings were fantastic. I hadn’t wanted to […]