Visual Arts
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Poetry: “Earthly Things”, Featuring Image: “Foggy Curve”
“earthly things” In the dip of my suspension bridge heart lies a letter to my next incarnation. It contains secrets once held in my cavities now paused, hanging in the negative space, lodged between beginnings like foodstuff in one’s teeth. As non-memories become, only earthly things matter now. First words, chopsticks, rosaries,…
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Poetry: “Lamentation”, Featuring Image: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”
Lamentation ‘Tis known age comes to each and all who’ve been But what, I ponder is such change about? No more, soft babe-in-arms, oh how I miss that skin, Like alligator, now, and that fact makes me pout. A mind, in school days, fast, at last enjoys Slow cogitation in this elder manifestation But…
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Poetry: “Ten Days”, Featuring Image: “Married to Art”
Ten Days My friend, I write to reach you: It’s the loneliest thing in the world— waiting to be found. Days annotate themselves before us, before we have time to arrive before we have memorized the proud trot of a passing morning. You are behind my eyes, where I lead my life…
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Fiction Piece: “Going to Pot”, Featuring Image: “Sunflower”
GOING TO POT Not many trees grew in the town where I grew up. My family lived on a barrier island off the coast of South Jersey. If you dug in the ground to any depth, you quickly hit salt water. But that didn’t stop residents from planting flowers. My grandmother loved to plant petunias,…
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Poetry: “Bird Stories” Featuring Image: ‘The Eyes of Bougainvillea”
Bird Stories I aging birds that once hopped fields, sang on clotheslines, now straddle trees. hot wind across the desert fluffs cactus wrens, branches bend; eaves hide warblers that echo dark canyons. under cumulous skies, thunder claps like flaps of feathers upsetting the balance of alighting night owls II a robin’s…
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Fiction Piece: “The Flesh of the Father”, Featuring Image: “The Sunset”
Flesh of the Father “Oh, thank you. Is my breath bad?” my Father Ari asked. “No, it’s just the thing I do when I am having one,” said my Uncle Zeb. I watched the transaction as if it was in slow motion. My father, a devout vegan, accepted not any Altoid but an Altoid from…
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Fiction Piece: “Shortcut”, Featuring Image: “Foggy Hill”
Shortcut Carol looked up at the man walking beside her. “You know, you really don’t have to escort me back to my grandmother’s house,” she said. “It’s just a two mile stroll along an open road. All I needed was to borrow a flashlight.” The man kept his eyes trained ahead. “Apparently Betty thought otherwise,”…
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Poem:”The Slanted Winds Down Guerrero Street” Featuring Image: “Way Back Home”
The Slanted Winds Down The afternoon fog will roll in from the North …
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Fiction Piece:”Let The Past Remind Us” Featuring Image: “Night to Remember”
Let the Past Remind Us Written By: Jeff Kaliss About the Author: Jeff Kaliss has been studying creative writing and music at City College following the completion of an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. At City, he’s appeared in Forum in various genres, read at Lit Night, and hosted the Poetry…
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Visual Art Submission “Lawson”; Featuring Poetry: “Down The Long Night”
Down The Long Night Written By: Gloria Keeley About the Author: I’m a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. My work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream, FORUM and other journals. I graduated from CCSF and I taught at CCSF for 34 years and was…
Forum Literary Magazine 