Dia de los Muertos: October 26-November 2, 2023
The Submissions:
by The Kisigliere
A nicho to honor one of my favorite poets, Louise Gluck.
by Journal Kurtz
Within four months of each other, two of my closest friends left this world and took a part of me that only they could coax out.
What to say about a man who folded 100 paper flowers for our wedding and once stayed to hear an unknown author read at a bookstore because “he looked like he needed an audience?”
What to say about a woman who saw the poet in me before I had ever put pen to paper?
Both ever-willing to indulge any spontaneous adventure we could dream up.
At center, a sympathy card from one about the other. Her signature nearly a scrawl as the brain cancer took her ability to write. The only card I received about either loss.
by Captain Quillard
Next Week’s Assignment:
Election Day falls this week. Pick an issue or candidate, real or fake, serious or funny, and create a yard sign, door knocker, flyer, postcard, campaign sign or other political collateral to get out the vote.