– Believe it or not, the ancient Chinese 5-Agent Principle accounts for us all. 1/ Water (born in a year ending in 2 or 3) -helps wood but hinders fire; helped by […]
S&R Poetry: “Directory of Destinies: A Parallel Poem” by Changming Yuan
S&R Poetry: “Morning on a Patio” by Bryce Albertson
Dewdrop bodies melt together like tallow candles in firebombed Dresden, while hummingbirds dogfight over nectar, ruby and false, here in this place, where the butterflies come to die.
S&R Poetry: Two poems from John Minser
Blood and Calendars There is deep terror in how the world wants to curl around your hand. It is almost too easy. Monuments collapse with a push. Let’s place boundaries on the […]
S&R Poetry: “Mother nature is, sometimes, just a guy at a bar giving advice to a friend about meeting a girl for the first time,” by Michael Pacholski
A thing of no ordinary pulse A thing of adventure in mountains A thing of love and when you speak of love a million have spoken your thoughts vibed your waves and […]
S&R Poetry: “Crepuscule,” by Adam Sirgany
In the twilight of the night, in the rain-fog at summer’s edge, when the skunk comes amble-burrowing in the compost heap for scraps of marrow to deep to suck from bone, when […]
S&R Poetry: “Cepaea nemoralis” by Peter Cobbold
Zoology students are apt to quail when asked what use are the bands on a snail The evidence they learn in class the banding helps it hide in grass If this is […]
S&R Poetry: "Timing," by Laurin Wolf
Timing Is time a thought that we create, a crack in space meant to alleviate the ache, harness worn on the wrist like a shackled prison bitch? I wonder what is at […]
S&R Poetry: "A Lost Language," by Mark J. Mitchell
Unpacking words, she spreads them out Like cards that might reveal something Hidden. There’s no room for your doubt. Unpacking her words, they fan out Into a hand, neat, clear of rings. […]
S&R Poetry: "Visible Storage," by Peter Grieco
Visible Storage – in the basement of the Rietberg Museum, Zürich Sinuous bodies joining hands in Indian sandstone ankle linked across a ledge— Peruvian puma beside West Mexican fetishes vermillion delicate bone masks […]
S&R Poetry: Three poems by Don Raymond, Jr.
About The Typeface The words are set in ink on the pulped innards of trees. The idea for words comes first from Sumeria as wedges in wet clay: tales of what came […]
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