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Pandemic Spring – Marian Shapiro
People are dying alone, comforted by prayers crashing through hospital windows on megaphones. I-love-you’s on iPads held at arm’s length, the arm covered in hazmat, faces covered hands covered voices covered by whir and drip, beep and buzz of lifesaving … Continue reading
The Freedom of Icarus — Antonella Manganelli
Artist’s Statement: The first painting is of Plato’s cave, where shadows are compared to our pale perception of reality. The second painting depicts Icarus as a fluctuating shape without human features flying freely to the sun, illuminating the grandeur of … Continue reading
Untitled – Jill Strachan
Gift of the Virus. Birdsong abounding, human sounds mitigated. Copyright Jill Strachan 2020 Bio: Jill Strachan, a former arts administrator, started writing haiku almost at the exact moment that she retired. And the haiku keep rolling in. Several have been … Continue reading
Walking through Coronavirus – Mary Jo Balistreri
Naples Florida, April 20, 2020 We see through blacktop to the clouds heat rising like sheets of glass A crow’s piercing caw shreds the air stillness magnifying sound An alligator with mouth wide-open moves closer Sharp teeth glisten … Continue reading
Morning Tea – Janice Hoffman
The deer wander on the edge of the forest just beyond our property again this morning as branches wave a love song of early spring. Cardinals and their feathered cousins sing and call across the treetops while … Continue reading
Screen Dump 499 – Tom Corrado
You are masked and gloved . . . and socially distant . . . orbiting the silent film Orphans of the Storm . . . gingerly navigating the crapshoot of grocery-shopping . . . An essential to the soundless you eat the … Continue reading
One Meander – Pam Winters
One Meander Rocky wants to know whether hummingbirds long for tabla music. At a restaurant in Santa Rosa, I met a busboy who played a sort of blues on his sitar, a sort of masala of birdsong or fingersong. … Continue reading
Elk — Leo Deege
Bio: Leo Deege is an artist from Vienna, Virginia. He has painted mostly plein air landscapes and portraits from life, while studying with Nelson Shank in Philadelphia and artists from the Alexandria Art League. He also taught painting for seven … Continue reading
Morning Report: 2 April 2020 – Gregory Luce
Song Sparrows are already chorusing when we step outside answered quickly by House Finches trilling upward toward the sky, while a Red-Bellied Woodpecker whinnies in the distance. I follow the dog through the yard as a Mockingbird runs through its … Continue reading
Like Ghost Towns – Beth Simpson Huddleston
On my morning walks, the playgrounds are like ghost towns on an old TV set. Absent are the voices that rise in crescendos. Gone are the sweet giggles and the sibling challenges. To uplift my spirits, I imagine them in … Continue reading
