Poetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 I Need a Poem for Tomorrow by Jen Lailey I Need a Poem for Tomorrow I need a poem for tomorrow. The day my sister and I exchange writing. Sometimes, overflowing, I cram what I have to share into the parameters we have set. But today I have nothing. Sure, I could dip a ladle back in to depression soup, soggy tissues for garnish. Serve up the same old mess. But that’s been the menu for months now. It’s ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Three Poems by Bobby Bradshaw Slipping Away I can no more slip into my car, pull out of our driveway and never come back any more than the moon can slip its tethers and drift away. Depression runs in my wife's family like banks along a river, the chance of being overwhelmed always there. She lists between clarity and paranoia. She sits all day on the edge of the sofa, iPhone in hand, watching videos. Her hearing nearly lost, sometimes I feel like an auctioneer always raising my ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 All That Glitters by Sarah Harley Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes, they call me on and on across the universe. Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox, they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe. – John Lennon You feel the whole thing, quite tiny at first, right from the start. It’s like glimpsing a point, a familiar point, on the horizon, ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Human Enough by Keir Hudson roll up to the front desk of the local zoo and place my work badge on the counter. “Hi, my name is Mina Forstatter. I’m the therapist who has been assigned to work with…” I try my best to keep a straight face. “I’ve been assigned to work with Queenie the Orangutan. Look, did you guys submit this referral as a joke ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Housewarming by Andrew Eastwick hen they got to Phoebe’s place Bridget popped the trunk of her car. She tested the glass doors of the barrister bookcase, which the seller had secured with tape and rope. It was heavy, but they eased it out of the trunk and onto a big piece of flattened cardboard, which they dragged across the sidewalk and into the lobby of the apartment building. The ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 It Goes On by Tiffany Chaloux t always starts with the light switch. Light switch on. Light switch off. Light switch on. Light switch off. The band of tightness in my chest eases. Now the front door. Lock, unlock, lock, unlock, lock, unlock, lock. With each click and glide, more relief. But more to do. I make my rounds around my room next, straightening already straight piles of books, papers. Next, I touch the ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Riding the Rails by Anne Anthony stretch the skin of a lawyer over the girl who colored outside the lines. The longer I wear this skin, the longer it takes to peel off at the end of the day. Commuting into Boston, a forty-minute back-and-forth journey transforms little league coaches and PTA moms into financial brokers and corporate accountants. Few talk or nod, though all follow common ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Three Poems by Paul Hostovsky Practice You can’t even let go of the blue casserole dish— how in the world are you going to let go of the world? I ask myself, standing in my kitchen in the late afternoon sunlight which is turning everything to gold. Everything, that is, except the blue casserole dish, which isn’t here because my stepdaughter borrowed it without asking me. And it pisses me off because I love that casserole dish. Because it belonged to my mother. Let ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 Three Poems by Ron Riekki We walk around the pond this patient, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and he feels he doesn’t have schizophrenia, and I tell him right now we’ll just walk around the pond, that it’s that simple, no worries about diagnoses or mis- diagnoses or missed goals or hopes or dreams, or mistakes, just this soft fog, these cute ducks, this slight mist, a bounding squirrel to our right that jumps onto a tree trunk and sneaks ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #15: Harmony October 15, 2024 A Symphony by Alex Andy Phuong A Symphony A theory of musicality In a life that is theatrical Playing a role of a lifetime Focusing on being at peace As a way to release Shame and regret And then marvel at the Wonderment of finding Harmony within reality Through the acceptance Of all that is real While allowing oneself Time to heal Stephen Granzyk reads “A Symphony” on behalf of Alex Andy Phuong: Alex Andy Phuong earned his Bachelor of Arts in English ...
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