by adamin | Feb 13, 2020 | FSR
adamin I want to tell you about the field mice and the tiny burrows they make in the dry grass, and how quick they have to be to escape the cats, and how clever the fox is at catching them. How today we passed a crisis of heat and are blessed with a breeze from the... 
by adamin | Aug 4, 2014 | Features
Every time a rocket launches and lands somewhere in the world it makes me think of Tommy Dorsey. Our friend Janet Bowdan offers this poem: starring Tommy Dorsey and his boys as they play the Hawaiian war dance circa 1942, Ship Ahoy. What makes it Hawaiian? you ask:... 
by adamin | Jun 17, 2014 | Features
There’s the Apocalypse, and then there’s Drucilla Wall. The whole world is a tree beside the house. Critters climb and live in it. Things with wings fly through it. Time is measured by it. Someone she loves stands beside it for a photograph. There he is, standing... by adamin | May 15, 2014 | Features
The lines have all been pulled in and we found a few with some really juicy claws–er, we mean poetry. We’re happy to share that our wonderful friend Sue Ellen Thompson has chosen Jennifer Keith as winner for the John Elsberg Poetry Contest first place... 
by adamin | May 11, 2014 | Features
The neon strobes its metallic blue: Sister Fay. The palm reader picks out love and money at the lunch pail intersection of Reisterstown and Liberty Roads. Northward, Julianna Spallholz reads her own palm. She plays a few numbers, and once spent an hour lightly...
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