ROGAN WOLF A Visit to the Gallery of Gifts The poems reproduced here have been selected from a collection I first put together several years ago. I needed to respond in words to the deaths of three people I loved.…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE It’s been 26 days since travel resumed between regions in Italy. We are watching 10 new coronavirus clusters, located in every part of the country, from Piemonte, Lombardia, and Toscana to Campania, Sicilia, and Calabria. Despite the…
“Woodland Heights”, (2014) for string orchestra 5.5.4.3.1. w/ vla solo and tree by Nick Roth, is a study of forest canopy ecology. More specifically, the work is an illustration of the premise that species composition and tree size distributions become more diverse…
ROBERTO MALINI In Memory of George Floyd (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) Before he died George Floyd said in a last faint whisper: “I can’t breathe”. “I can’t breathe”. And he died suffocated, with the weight of the…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 15 May I got a call today from the receptionist in our dentist’s office, and now my appointment of 13 March is re-scheduled to Friday, 22 May. This feels like a momentous occasion; the cancellation of my…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 8 May Forget everything I wrote earlier about getting accustomed to leaving the house with protective gear. I feel the way one does around the end of January–weary of arming myself against a harsh environment every time…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 2 May Here we live slowly, synched to daylight and the weather (and the recycling schedule, but that is a topic for another day). Our bedroom windows face east so we are up early. Coffee, then breakfast,…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT English A poetic In memoriam for those who died untimely of the corona virus UNTIMELY LEAVING When a sun which knows no more dawn dies away in its own light, and the night blots out its stars, snaps the stem,…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 23 April The numbers still mount in Italy: more than 25,000 are dead. In the United States almost twice that number have died, but eight state governments have yet to issue a general stay-at-home order. Beaches are…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 13 April A grim milestone this evening: 20,000 Italians have died from COVID-19. Five hundred sixty-six died today, which is 135 more than yesterday. The numbers roll out day after day until they begin to lose all…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 13 April Today is Pasquetta, “little Easter.” In Italy, the day after the holiest day of the Christian calendar is also a national holiday, traditionally a day to relax after the emotional rigors of solemn church vigils…
ANNE STEVENSON Sierra Nevada Landscape without regrets whose weakest junipers strangle and split granite, whose hard, clean light is utterly without restraint, whose mountains can purify and dazzle and every minute excite us, but never can offer us commiseration, never…
At this dramatic moment in time, when many people are losing their lives; the most vulnerable are suffering great hardships and the whole of humanity is forced to make painful sacrifices; a group of international poets (who are also human…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE 3 April This morning I started my little Fiat for the first time since 19 March and went shopping for necessities. I went armed with a mask, several pairs of disposable gloves, hand sanitizer, and Clorox wipes,…
ABHAY K. sea of innocence exuding amber light —lemur’s eyes (1) * an ascetic meditating turned upside down —the baobab tree (2) * giant eggs in drawing rooms —where have all the elephant birds gone? (3) * always ready for…
