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Met Percent: Week Twenty-one [by Alec Bernstein]
POV . . . LOP Enlarged detail and inset painting: Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes, Marie Denise Villers, 1801, gallery 629. In my corporate days, I lived with many a LOP, a list…
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The meaning of standing [by Tracy Danison]
Beach at Jaffa, Israel, during lockdown©Felice Ross 2020 Sacred. Between earth and sky. Connected. Holding hands. Reaching down. Stretching up. Eye and see. You. In the middle. A bird on a branch on a…
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The Handbook of Sex Tips [by Molly Arden]
I was on the S bus, staring out the window, wishing I didn’t have to write The Handbook of Sex Tips for Women of a Certain Age, a book which was to just another one of…
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Squib 422: What a Swell Party it Was [by Alan Ziegler]
Any survey of the Top Parties of the 20th Century is bound to include Truman Capote's Black & White Ball ('66), Rothschild's Surrealist Ball ('72), Bianca Jagger's 30th Birthday at Studio 54 ('77), and…
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“Hidden Bird” [by Joseph Ceravelo]
Song birds enter the morningthe pre-dawn before the fires,you know, when the night floats awaylike vapor on a lake,or like kisses in the woods.Songs that even creationmight not remember. Continuous, threaded, as ifa cherry…
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I Sit and Sew [poem by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)]
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of…
