The End of the Beginning by Douglas Penick

This essay marks the ending of the lavish storehouse of riches known as Berfrois...
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The sky, serene, impenetrable, ineffable and incomparable, with a fine island of clouds...
Read MoreTravellin’ Woman

How many women have had to contort themselves into a particular image of an adventurous woman?
Read MoreYou Cannot Wear a Rainbow by Douglas Penick

Even in the Buddha’s teachings, the direct experience of omnipresent wakefulness falls prey to hierarchies...
Read MoreBalkan Superstition

Of particular importance in the revisionist lesson is the task of clearing Dracula from any association with vampirism...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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