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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
There is a perfection
to the mockingbird’s song
dropped from a black wire,
to the white slashes
of his spread tail feathers
against this deep, clean blue.
The choral repertoire
of his hopes is […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
The ascent of the Black Lives Matter movement and the overthrow of apartheid symbols in the Capital of the Confederacy made me think of some of the things I heard when we lived there:
–The South will rise […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
Revolution
He watches the tail lights of her car
disappear down the rutted driveway,
throws a hammer after her
yells don’t come backHe turns towards his trailer
weeds pushing through the metal s […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
During the months of our restricted movements, my wife and I have continued our nearly daily walking. Although we had developed the habit pre-Covid for the health of our bodies and minds, the pandemic has […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
“I told you we should have made reservations,” Maya said.
“But this trip was supposed to be about spontaneity.”
Maya and Zephyr were driving across the country in their new used RV. They were celebra […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
Billie Hinton is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
I’m holding the reins of a twelve-hand half-Shetland pony when I get the call. My daughter hops into the saddle, I r […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
Alone, timeworn—but still
standing, even if its paint-scuffed radiators
give no heat and its window frames
leak and its doors don’t
shut tight, everything foundering
since its elder kee […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
It all started when a friend in California sent me three used paperbacks that someone donated to her sidewalk library. My friend and I hoped that my nephew who is stranded here during the pandemic without school […]
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
She beats her fist on the secretary desk. Its ancient wooden arms bear her blows. This is the place where her great uncle sat writing his weekly sermons, the place where her grandfather, the professor, sat […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Time for Change: Juneteenth Photos by Mark Atkinson 5 years, 9 months ago
Incredible photos! Thank you.
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
I went to see the Juneteenth rally in Richmond because I’ve always been drawn to stories, to seeing things unfold. Beneath the grand statue of Robert E. Lee, a large crowd gathered. Songs were sung and w […]
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Anita M commented on the post, The Murmuration by S.W. Gordon 5 years, 9 months ago
Nooooo… don’t die! 🙂
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Anita M commented on the post, The Writer’s Life Is Not an Easy One by Lauren Sapala 5 years, 9 months ago
This is an encouraging post. I love reading stories of a journey.
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Amy Stonestrom is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
A strange February morning, gray sky lined with tangerine. Ten degrees. From my spot in the front seat, bursts of flame […]
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
When I first started writing, I couldn’t even call myself a writer. I had been NOT writing for seven years before I joined a silent writing program that I went to once a week to sit down and scrawl out a m […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
The day slipped into dusk as the ambient light ebbed imperceptibly like the liminal moment before the tide changes direction. Robin removed her Ray-Bans and stared up at the wide-open heavens above the El […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
“I was most grievously undone
when I lost my footing on the shelf
and swan dived to the floor
splayed and back broken”,
says the complete works of Shakespeare
who now leans against the cash reg […]
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Anita M commented on the post, Dispatches From The Couch by Erika Raskin 5 years, 9 months ago
Oh, I remember when these were some my prevalent thoughts, too.
It’s now a month later since you posted this piece, but it feels like at least three. Maybe because my mind keeps going back to the beginning of […] -
Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
Much has been going on in the blogger’s back-of-the-blog life, compounded with news of the nation. And frankly, I have been mulling for well over a week on how to say what I want to say; or how to say anything, f […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
Richard Key is the 1st place winner of Streetlight Magazine’s 2020 Essay/Memoir Contest
Honeybees are swarming outside my home office under the eaves of the roofline. I would say they are hovering like tiny […]
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