Dispatches from the Field

‘DOG HOUSE’ BY JANE HANFORD ‘Dogs can never speak the language of humans, and humans can never speak the language of dogs. But many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that . . . Then there are the snufflings and […]

‘EMPTINESS-SING HER THE BLUES, 2015’ by DURA Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. MEVLANA JELALUDDIN RUMI

‘THE LIGHTHOUSE’ BY NINA GOLDSMITH ‘At that season those who had gone down to pace the beach and ask of the sea and sky what message they reported or what vision they affirmed had to consider among the usual tokens of divine bounty–the sunset on the sea, the pallor of dawn, the moon rising, fishing-boats […]

‘TIGER LILI’ BY CLEMENCE GASTAN ‘Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right. She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belles of Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward […]