Soul Fountain

Poem – Immortality (By David Russell)

Immortality You carried your vengeance beyond decease – Slowed down the pyre’s cleansing, Slowed down the soil’s, the water’s warmth, Left total body change open to the senses – Pursued your cause beyond its effects, Stepped out beyond all examples, ...

Poem – Noblesse Oblige (By Frank De Canio)

Noblesse Oblige - By Frank De Canio It isn’t strange that some sweet girl who’s charmed a male combatant in the sexes’ war should, seeing that her former foe’s disarmed by awe, forgo hostilities she swore. For, after all, a ...

Poem – Unintelligent Design (By Donal Mahoney)

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble I found in Carrara and shipped to New York on the deck of a trawler. I offered the marble to a famous sculptor who ...

Poem – Bodies Exhibit (By Fern G. Z. Carr)

Bodies Exhibit - By Fern G. Z. Carr Black walls, track lighting, spectators milling about silently, reverently surrounded by vascular systems preserved in fluid, skeletons, diseased organs, foetuses in jars. Hollowed out corpses in life-like poses play soccer, hold hands, ...

Poem – AGE HAS ITS PRIVILEGE (By Ray Gallucci)

AGE HAS ITS PRIVILEGE - By Ray Gallucci When you are old and prone to mold, It matters not if you they’ll scold For skipping meetings by not heeding Platitudes they keep repeating. It’s right you’ve earned to choose to ...

Poem – It Sounds Dramatic (By R.T. Castleberry)

In this small, blue room— overheated, clenched by melancholy, I sit the night, guarding carnival goods, blood potions, the knife thrower’s serrated blades. Two buskers beach-walk a tune, harmonies muffled by wave’s insistence. A mathematical conceit of stars burning to ...

Poem – Stone Slate (By Melissa R. Mendelson)

Stone Slate - By Melissa R. Mendelson They tell me that I am alive. If that were so, shouldn’t I breathe? Listen to your heart, and I’m stupid for listening once more. I don’t hear anything. Check your pulse. “I ...

Poem – A Nuclear Childhood (By Donal Mahoney)

A Nuclear Childhood   What if your parents  had never met had never married    had never yelled  at each other  and instead had wed   someone they loved and lived peacefully  all those years.   That would have been  ...

Poem – Redemption Afar (By Wafula p’Khisa)

Those who sent their men to war Still wait, forever wait Their return at full moon. Those whose men returned long ago Still wait, forever wait To be issued their fortune. We hoped amidst the struggle Our blood shall dry ...

Poem – ON PORPOISE (By Ray Gallucci)

ON PORPOISE Am I watching the dolphins Or are they watching me, Somersaulting on backfins, While I swim clumsily? At the junction of our worlds Where the land meets the sea, Somewhat shallow for their twirls, I can stand awkwardly ...