Tag: Heiko H. Caimi
Heiko H. Caimi – Alice in the mirror
After taking a shower, Alice stood in front of her mirror, without looking at it. It was a large, vertical mirror, almost occupying the...
Heiko H. Caimi – Sick Earth
I came home in the evening, while long shadows were extending between the buildings, bridging at dusk. I crossed the main street and slipped...
Gérard de Nerval – The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Joy and revolution
An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights” into a crucible of familiar references while avoiding sterility...
Jane Hirshfield – Against Certainty
There is something out in the dark that wants to correct us.
Each time I think “this,” it answers “that.”
Answers hard, in the heart-grammar’s strictness.
If...
Jane Hirshfield – My Eyes
An hour is not a house,
a life is not a house,
you do not go through them as if
they were doors to another.
Yet an hour...
VVAA – Living Labor
Choosing to tell the world of labor, the real one, live, experienced day after day by people who do or suffer it- in ten...
VVAA – Agents of Treachery
The best spy is the one uncovering history
A decent anthology, edited by Otto Penzler, with prominent authors and fourteen stories which, though in most...
Heiko H. Caimi – Mother, tongue
Mother, mother
how much you are tongue to me
how much language is to me my mother
blending strong with soft, soft words
immeasurably true
in their...
From the kitchen: Two-tongued Sea
How is a new Inkroci column born? How is an anthology conceived? Reading this story, you’re a witness to the inception of a transnational...
Émile Zola – L’Assommoir
Our future is our past
Assommoir: watering hole, or, in this case, butchery. This is what Colombe’s inn was called. And we can easily understand...