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Summertime, and the living is easy…  

By Ellie Ivanova Ponti As I stopped by Leo’s workplace the other day, I noticed that almost 30% of the cars in the parking lot bore vanity license plates. That struck me as unusual – I think that among the general car population, vanity plates don’t exceed 5%. Are those car owners identity-challenged or, on […]

Drew Logan Photo: badosa Dylan is older than me and he deserves my respect. The fact that he is older than me is not a real good reason to respect someone; the fact that he is older than me and is still being wonderfully creative is a real good reason to respect someone. “It’s All […]

Summer Love Snatch  

Stanislava Stanoeva Photo: jonrawlinson Black crows come flying and form up by age. Outside, the thin road is silent and pale. The noise is inside us and it is so usual that if snowflakes flit, they’re only delusional. Translation from Bulgarian: Svetlana Komogorova – Komata

I feel good!  

The smile of eyes  

Bozhana Apostolova Photo: Wolfgang Staudt The mist coughed up the soul of winter. It dawned, and the day set out wrapped in a scarf of white tears. Someone wept inside me, while in my ear a little bug droned. So, life, are you speeding again with puffy and drowsy eyes? Where are you rushing to? […]

Eric Sutherland Photo: Cristóbal Alvarado Minic copperhead sleeps in cool shade as I pluck blackberries from thorny vines and place them between my lips, a dragonfly watches from my shoulder, the sky is a mist of humid July air, it droops heavy toward the ground everywhere my eyes gaze upon the horizon, and though I […]