Hands in Flow by Cheryl Pallant
In 2009 I traveled near South Korea's Demilitarized Zone to visit and write an article about the then 79 year old shaman Kim Keum Hwa. During my second visit, she surprised me by asking me to get up and dance. After, and for the duration of the day, she and several of her disciples encouraged me to pursue a path as a shaman.
[POEM] Maybe It’s A Tin Ear by Tim Butterworth
Maybe it’s a tin ear for poetry.
“Do unto others” didn’t balance like a see-saw when you heard it?
You were playing with fire while others sang about whose...
Soul Vision by Lori Levy
We can’t hide here—the only two white women
in the front row of the Crossroads Theater in south L.A.,
where Isaac, the black man, stands on stage like a...
On Other Birds by Kelly Ann Jacobson
Through the harsh whistle of a
bullying Blue Jay from the feeder,
the Common Yellowthroat’s
wichity-wichity-wichity,
we find our own through bill and tap
and rhythmic drumming on drainpipe,
bone against bone.
So much...
