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“Ce moment bizarre”: a note on confinement and afterwards [by Tracy Danison]
A Tale from the Decameron (1916) by John William Waterhouse On Wednesday, 2 April, the number of Covid-19 cases in France as a whole, formally diagnosed in an institution or with symptoms serious enough to get…
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from “Julius Jaffe: the Analects” (2) [by Mitch Sisskind]
FOUR ATTRIBUTES OF A TZADDIKHerman Fishman asked, "Was ShlomoPutchkis a tzaddik?" Julius Jaffe replied,"No, because Shlomo Putchkis did notpossess the four attributes of a tzaddik." He continued, "A tzaddik must comefrom a lineage of…
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“Comparative Fates” [by David Lehman]
Today I had the unexpected pleasure of finding a poem that I forgot I wrote and published. This appeared in Smartish Pace, issue #15, edited by the redoubtable Stephen Reichert: Comparative Fates I choose…
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Spring is Here [by Glen Hartley]
Amorous boys caress darling, eager, fabulous girls, having insisted joy keeps love moving near optimum performance, quite rightly, since time undervalues women's x-y zenith.
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Plato’s ghost! Gaiety shoots the moon, Paris bans illusion, dismisses mountebanks [by Tracy Danison]
It's all up in the air for Christina Towle's "Bounce Back" – Photo © Timothée Lejolivet And she'll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes the T-bird away(Fun, fun, fun, 'till her daddy…
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Larissa Szporluk Reports from Domodossola, Italy
1 April, Domodossola First to go were the gatherings. With the gatherings, gone was the sound of the gatherings—the voices, the music, the cars, the vespas, mostly the voices. Once in a while, a…
