The Ambitious Card Magic is hard to master because magic doesn’t exist. Houdini steamed across the table as Vernon repeated the trick, placed the chosen card precisely back in the middle of the deck, slow as pitch, open as a top hat, inches from Houdini’s face. Two taps, and Vernon flipped the card off the…
Ode to a Cup of Tea after Pablo Neruda My friend brewed me a cup of afternoon tea—amber liquid in a hand-thrown mug, earthen brown vessel holding the sky, the constellations hidden in sunlight, mug with lip composed of fossils crushed into clay, of water washed from Mount Vesuvius, liquid left from the gods’ last…
Congratulations to our 2022 Poetry Contest winners! First Place:Connie Jordan Green – Ode to a Cup of Tea Runner-Up:Daniel Room – The Ambitious Card