Ian Prattis Canada Day One – April 1 Nine mist laden guardians geothermal travel volcanic rim Las Pailas Day Two – April 2 Strangler vines holding aloft dead trees still screaming rainforest rhythm Day Three – April 3 Waterfall La Cangrela high mountain goddess pacific casas sustain Day Four – April 4: Sacred Chant Retreat…
Author: Vishwanath Bite
Hunger
Arijit Ghosh Puducherry, India The stinging of hunger The rattling of batteries The former is liquid The latter is onomatopoeic Both kills Hunger turns liquid into d-r-o-p d-r-o-p thirst, thirst for power, oil, blood and water. My woman, my child & myself Lay clad in war-stripped rags. d-r-o-p d-r-o-p d-r-o-p thirst of tingling Sizzling hunger-viper…
Initials carved in driftwood
Charles F. Thielman Eugene Her son’s tight-roped breath fogs zig-zag down to the shore as he igloos into the ice heart of a storm’s approach, the lake’s thick ice groaning. Butterfly tattoo near her jugular, she paces the ridge, watching. So like his distant father, she’s determined he’ll not absorb their angers. Dragging her bag…
Indianising Literary Criticism
Dr Amod Kumar Rai Asst. Prof. Deptt. Of English. BPG College Kushinagar. U P. IUC-Associate, IIAS, Shimla. liot some eighty years ago in one of his seminal and influential essay ‘The Function Of Literary Criticism’ stated that criticism is “the elucidation of works of art and the correction of taste.” In the same essay he…
The Nobody Child
The caterpillar
The Bright Drop
Inside Passages
Charlotte Lenox Philadelphia, PA USA 19104 I. No roads led in or out of Juneau, sealing off a silent city from a silent world. Traffic never clogged its only highway. Houses were vacant, the cars and boats in their driveways still bright and shiny. Yet, somehow, Brown Bear Groceries was always well-stocked with food that…
Olympia
The Jigsaw Puzzle
M. David Hornbuckle Alabama, USA The sun. It’s been one of the hottest days of the year, mid-July, but the sun is finally starting to descend behind the tree line. The laundry is clean. The dishes are clean. The kitchen and bathroom floors are mopped. Everything has been dusted. The shower curtain has been replaced…