1. An amazing poem: Cat Moving Kittens by Austin Smith. That last line!

2. Very poetic, very haunting short story: Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen.

3. Another amazing poem: Punic War IV by Sonya Taaffe.

4. A sem-serious article on broken legs in Anglo-Saxon England.5. My ( Read more... )

Swan Girls by Theodora Goss

They are so lovely, the wild swan girls:

white wings and absence . . .

1.       How to recognize a swan girl ( Read more... )

On Loving a Saudi Girl by Carina Yun

After your beloved leaves, you will take
a ten-hour red-eye flight back to America.
At baggage claim, you will wait for your bag
to drop onto the conveyer belt, then drag
the weight of Sultan Ahmed across the terminal-
the soumak rug, candlesticks, and pashmina scarves.
In Istanbul, muezzin will call out five ( Read more... )

Seeds by M Sereno ( Read more... )

Apotropaic Magic by Margaret Wack ( Read more... )

Black Ships Burning by Jennifer Crow ( Read more... )

Church Going by Philip Larkin ( Read more... )

On Reading Edna St. Vincent Millay by Carina Yun

I think about the morning's muezzinwaking me at four-thirty, his song ( Read more... )

Not With Flowers by Deepthi Gopal ( Read more... )

Inland by Edna St Vincent Millay ( Read more... )