by BlogEditor | Aug 9, 2021 | Book Reviews
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her Houseby Cherie Jones FollowFollowFollow How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novelby Cherie Jones Little, Brown and CompanyFebruary 2, 2021 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens Cherie Jones’s debut novel How the One-Armed...
by BlogEditor | Aug 9, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
“So what’s for dinner?” I was foraging through Mom’s fridge, taking advantage of the quickly dissipating cold blast of air in my face, trying to come up with a plan. “Is there any fish or chicken in there? We could use the fire pit.” I started to pull ingredients. Mom...
by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room, Uncategorized
I. Beautiful day for war, fields of yellowing leaves speckled with black spots buffering centuries of secrets stuck in the soil whispering to any root that’ll listen to its’ stories. Put down your weapons, pick up your ploughs. II. The earth has never faltered under...
by BlogEditor | Aug 2, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post, The Keeping Room
My birthday twin died today. I knew almost nothing about him, except that he and I were born on the exact same date. We were the same age until around 11am this morning when I began to grow steadily older than him. Every morning at the hospital where I work as a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Hymn Thirsty for aPleistoncene morning, I’m a graying creaturetrotting in & out of shadows. I rest deep in the dark belly of my backyard ravine. ...
by BlogEditor | Jul 1, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Ways to Die While Breathing I’ve heard this more than once: Death slides the mind to turbulence and dust, Anytimebullets may break my spine break my spine I can’t decide if this scares me or not Besides, there aremany ways to die ...
by BlogEditor | Jun 29, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Her unrelenting certitude is as irritating as her criticisms of other peoples’ food and her refusal to let anyone cook in her kitchen. She tells me God doesn’t lie– to have faith. A leap is a star many say can be reached, but I’ve seen a small frog in the middle...
by BlogEditor | Jun 25, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Rachel has an extraordinary gift to burn toast beyond repair, a talent she inherited from her grandfather, she says. The smell of coffee and fire tells me she’s up. I say, You can throw that away. I can just make you some. She shakes her head and twirls the knife...
by BlogEditor | Jun 22, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Evermore Each of her wing strokes stokes heavy air to currents blends heat with movement softens summer. Many know that her hair is sometimes a cloud of unruly proportions tangling spreading into split ends thinning frizzing that each of her breasts is a...
by BlogEditor | Jun 14, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
Hiding from the crowned virus, and my landlord half waves, a downward motion, to the lemon tree who’s called the bees and small white moths to the once-empty yard these years in Kaimukī. “Has to come up.” White-teeth smiling as he speaks, and he hides behind dark...
