VERY SHORT STORIES
Gerald Nicosia – Ferlinghetti
for Neeli Cherkovski
Lawrence never let me treat him like a famous man
I sat down to interview him
a green 27-year-old Midwestern kid
He said, “You need...
Silvio Donà – Serial Killer
Rocco did not have any particular reason to hate old women.Yet, he hated them in a ferocious way.Only seeing one of them...
SHORT STORIES
Antonia Buizza – Angela
“Angela, don’t run: you know that after you are going to have a sore throat”.“Ok, mum, I’m coming”.Mother and daughter went back...
POPULAR
Alexander Shurbanov – Waiting for Schliemann
Everything I’ve written
has its whereabouts
in spacetime.
Not a word is invented,
not a sound.
If one day a Schliemann
rakes the dust of the ages,
Troy the unconquerable
will...
CLASSICS
Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and...
T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
I
Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they...
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in...
POETS' CORNER
Neeli Cherkovski – A Poet
a poet
for sure
sauntering down
the avenue
to number 261
sporting a beret
wearing Levies
neatly ironed
a poet is all
he...
Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal...
Pina Piccolo – I Would Have Liked To Be patti smith
I would have liked to be
patti smith.
Locks of rebellious
gray hair.
Indomitable
gaunt visage.
The jacket:
the worn-out one
from...
Gerald Nicosia
Born outside Chicago, Gerald Nicosia moved to San Francisco in 1979. He is author of...
Dylan Thomas – Should Lanterns Shine
Should lanterns shine, the holy face,
Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light,
Would wither up, and...
