SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS.

  I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. — Christopher Eccleston If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa   This month’s contributors write about peace and belonging – their hopes for these things, where they can […]

Christopher Bernard’s Amor i Kaos (part 2)   The prevailing winds, from east over the Atlantic, across gray, clammy tides, puling seagulls, their black caps and flexing, sickle-like wings, the terns’ small, quick arcs, the funny rushes and escapes along the skirt of the wave wash of the pipers hunting for small, nutlike sandcrabs. The […]

        Christine Chatterton’s Courage of the Heart: An American Odyssey 1915 to 1923  is a fine book, where small town, mid-west America meets the Great War in Europe.           Based upon a real cache of letters written by her husband’s grandfather, and upon interviews with elderly family members,  Chatterton has woven a tapestry of innocent […]

THE LAST COLLARD GREEN   Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte Hello, my family name is Green and I am the last Collard in town. Life was good in my rich patch of dirt at the corner of Rice and Roux.  Every year I would defy the winter frost and blossom forth from spring into the fall. My […]

Love a conundrum   She is my Conundrum Of the existence of love; Spurious in nature; a spunky Squalid she; longs no love Squaddie me a spurned lover   Cooked up with old coon; her Copper-bottomed scheme Copulation a game for fame Bestows her as best-seller Her bestiality get in woe betide   Copiously bleeding […]

Flower Reborn (In Pedrógão) Stubborn; As only a woman knows how to be. Knowledgeable; As only a Goddess knows how to be. Feminine and beautiful among the black of death, reborn, alive, dependent on strength and not on luck. Beautiful is your strength that gives color to the Morning. Sunrise agape renewing Hope. And the […]

Sic semper [evello mortem] tyrannis   ‘Still waters run deep’.   Clichés are good to begin a poem with. I love justice and hate tyranny. I love justice more than I love my country, its people, my people, fame or wealth. Sometimes, truth sounds clichéd.   Quid est veritas?   At first it seems not easy, not […]

Madam of My Heart by Gini Grossenbacher   Madam of My Heart, by Gini Grossenbacher, is a historical romance based on true events. It is the story of Brianna Baird. A teen girl in the 1800’s who lives with her pastor father, who has become a mean and abusive drunk, her mother who has become […]