poem by Dan Raphael
That Lived-in Look “nothing is different but/ everything has changed” [paul simon] sweep the floor predict the weather
Rock Star at La Scala
by DC Diamondopolous Paparazzi elbowed their way past CNN talking heads as media from around the world made camp on the plaza. Fans, young and old, T-shirt vendors, street singers, mime artists, and pickpockets crowded La Scala Square, and the Piazza del Duomo. Helicopters circled, the chop-chop mixed with the thumping rock of the jumbo-screen […]
The old cedar Table
by Kenneth M. Kapp There was an old cedar table and four chairs in a corner of the front yard. If the sun was in the old man’s eyes, he’d carefully set his coffee mug on the grass and move the table and his chair an inch one way or another. The boards were gray […]
Bhumi
by Shobhita Thakur The wheels of the stretcher rattle rapidly through the crowded hospital corridor, Bhumi lying on it in a fragile haze of near unconsciousness. Her super-thin, young body, barely eighteen, cannot yet comprehend what has just struck her world.
The Thing That Grew in the Absence
by Zary Fekete Nora was surprised by the green. From the road the hills had looked dry… grasses shaved short and pale as old rope… but once they parked and walked toward the trees, the color gathered and thickened, pulling in the light. It wasn’t a brightness so much as a concentration; the kind of […]
Trei fabule
[cuvinte afurisite] de Mihai Bogdan Lupescu Fabula Micuța găină roșie The Little Red Hen este o fabulă americană culeasă pentru prima dată de Mary Mapes Dodge în revista St. Nicholas Magazine în 1874. Povestea era menită să-i învețe pe copii importanța muncii grele și a inițiativei personale.
The Death of Agamemnon
by Piotr Augustyniak 1. The loss of my father. But not when he died — the earlier loss, when he was still alive, yet returned from Troy as one who could only die, as one who had lost his life beneath Troy. This is my journey to the origin. Beyond the entire arrangement of the […]
Biografia unui film
[pricinaşul de serviciu] de Radu-Ilarion Munteanu Filmul respectiv se numește „Cetățeanul Kane” și aparține cineastului Orson Welles, făcut în anul 1941. Dar are o istorie, iar istoria acestui film e subiectul acestui articol.
An application of the incommensurability theory: about culture and civilisation
by Ana Bazac The epistemological theory of incommensurability states that two scientific theories based on different presumptions (about the same object, of course), thus different models of solving the problems questioned and answered by these theories, are incommensurable: namely, they cannot be mutually criticised/they cannot criticise each other. So, they are parallel.
poem by Michael Lee Johnson
Injured Shadow In nakedness of life moves this male shadow worn out dark clothes,