by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
Measure, spend,
watch it fly.
Bright hummingbird
lit upon the air.
Passes by.
Can’t catch it.
Mist in morning light.
Can’t earn more.
Even yours will come.
Take notice,
time on your side.
time
The Nature of Time.
by Bruce E.R. Thompson. Here is a question for you: why does time move forward? This may sound like one of those philosophical imponderables like, how can nothingness exist? Or what is the right way to distinguish between right and wrong? Or if God is omnipotent, can God make a stone so heavy that even […]
Urgent Patience.
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 […]
Of times and tides.
by Cliff Beck. I Stand in awe as low tide exposes endless stretches of glistening gold. The vastness infers permanence, re assurance that there is a forever more. But look at the fields by the shore with fences hanging in mid-air, their disrepair a monument to the futility of failing to go with the endless […]
Passages.
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.
Indefinitely.
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 […]