"Like the paper boats she taught me how to make"
Mom's Passing
by C.E.Chaffin

"There were too many compromises"
The Junk Drawer
by C.E.Chaffin

"Taste the first pear of summer"
CO
by C.E.Chaffin

"In the museum of atrocity"
World Trade Center
by Alec Emerson

"Across a sea of leaves"
University of the Spirit
by David Matthews

"My mother never told me the color of your hair"
Pilgrimage
by Lucille Lang Day

"Loss flowed into me like light"
Baptism River
by Cheryl Snell

"If time wears a bracelet"
Time, Teeth & Marrow
by Abel Salas

"Old barns and kills, steeples and silos"
Train of Thought
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

"Beach treasures"
Early Riser
Julie Jennings

Dakota Woman
by Susan Power

MY NOVENA
By: Peter Schwartz
Review By: Charles P. Ries

“Sorry, Haters”
By Judith K. Witherow

A spicy soup to awaken dormant tastebuds
Corn and Pepper Soup
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Easy and fulfilling snack or main course for when you just want to cook for one
Chicken Mirin
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John

Original oil paintings by Richard Sylbert

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