A Stroll through Castile Woods by Unknown Author The minstrel shouldered his flute and looked warily around him. Through the thick  woven canopy of sweeping branches and trembling leaves, he sensed a decline in the air that told  him night was coming. Furthermore: a cold, mercilessly dark night. “Well, I reckon we ought to set up camp sometime soon,” PM ventured. His dark ...

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Spaces Between Us by Starr Jiang You asked me once how far the distance stretched Between you and me. I could not answer. Sometimes we’re the image two lovers etched; We’re catching our breaths as hazy cancer Almost leaves the soft Manhattan skyline. Then the scaffolding drowns in Hudson’s streams, Revealing two souls lost amid the brine - In castles that honed American...

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Daffodils by Theresa Abalos Today I looked at the daffodils and they were just daffodils. I stood for a moment, and grieved. Is this life? Every day losing another dream to the despot of Human greatness? How heavily it breathes, This withering tyrant! It looms o’er my shoulder, and scorns my gauzy laurels. They’re absurd, these clumsy daffodils, scattered like Leaves in the...

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Daughter by Starr Jiang My daughter If there should still be color in the sky I would take a brush and paint it white so that you with your Magic Markers can color the stars and name them And when the world turns its cynical eye and demands, “What do you know?” You can point to the heavens and say, “The universe” When...

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