enriching the soul of love you become united within the circle:

Jamais Vu once again strikes again!!…

In this week's edition of the Threshold Bookcast, we follow Jake Harvey as he visits the illustrious Mistress Aeira for a private consultation.

At the beginning of the episode, the former businessman reminisces some of the events that have lead him to the political arena, and ponders what…

May good things come to you,



as your heart in love,



it grows strong,



strong in the love you know I have for you,



love that runs gently like a newborne fawn.



May good things come to you,



as you fall asleep each night,



angel of my hearts passing into twilight's eve each day,



may the blessings of fulfilled and happy life,



may they always with you stay.



I call the being of lapis lazuli,



that he…

Jedidiah beloved of The Lord

Archaic sage…sanctifying hallows

Exoteric King of Ophir whispers through you still,

as we walk with the mandarin of hope…

                             I am working in an antique variety store

                 dusting, rearranging,

interacting with an occasional customer

        at the register an old man is standing,

    diligently watching me network his wares  

      as I walk across creaking wooden floors,

           I gesture to a woman to follow me.

       there is something I want her to see,

              something she might be…

As the title suggests, the fifth chapter of « 2206 : Window Onto A New World » reveals more details of the recently discovered spatial anomaly, the baffling phenomenon that has all of Ovel talking.

In this instalment, we meet the other two key figures of the Coalition of Progressives,…

Lubriciously Yours



I wander

inside the elixirs

of your expressive passion

as you pull me inside

the deep vintage of your…

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win… ~~Stephen King

 …

Scholars, lovers, and the lonely-hearted all know poetry in their own way and all have their own very lovely relationships with it. But who have a more passionate relationship with poetry than poets themselves? These quotes are presented in honor of their voices and their inspiring dedication to "the flower of language."

“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day.  For there would be…

From ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love





You are the man newly arriving

at history’s worm-ravaged door,

the woman whose shadows are salves

upon the bleeding breasts of the earth,…

“There is movement in the shadow of a sun that is old now. There, just there. Coming from the rim of the world.”

Toni Morrison, Family and History





The black and white photo shows you seated

in a wooden chair on the porch of a cabin

built likely by slaves, later inhabited by you:

Black American Woman Elsie Mary Bell Griffin.

One side of the image is shadowed

like the…

Korean poet Kim Chi-Ha.

Kim Chi-Ha is a Korean poet who was born in 1941 and whose dedication to the expressions of truth and courage in his work has cost him his freedom for most of his adult life. Thanks to modern translations of his poetry and some prose by dedicated…

(photo of "Could This Be Love," the painting by Kerry James Marshall featured on the cover of Body of Life by Elizabeth Alexander, courtesy of VivaUltra on Flickr.com)







Those of us––whether writers, editors, or production personnel––who long ago cast our professional lot with the publishing industry, know that it can be as volatile and unpredictable as any other. Unless you are sitting on a stack of raving reviews for a…

Coming in 2009: Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black









EVERY HOUR HENCEFORTH





I know blackness as taught by my father:

“You are my joy and my genius,” he often said.

I know blackness as taught by my mother:

“Your smile is my robe of honor, your peace my earned grace.”



Once a year we were pilgrims driving from Atlanta

to Waycross where my brother and…

(Artwork by brothers Greg and Tim Hildebrandt)









1.

B.C.: With his brother’s blood wet on his hands,

Cain ran vomiting future sorrows of man.



Petals of gold cloud

swirled bright eternal letters

too soon forgotten.



2575-2467 B.C.: Immersed in themes of an unfolding story,

Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty blazed pyramids of glory.



Before time or space,…

(“Day Surrendering Unto Night” artwork by Sheila Wolk )







“It was a savage scene, and we stayed there for a long time, watching life feed on itself, the silence interrupted only by the crack of bone or the rush of wind, or the hard thump of a vulture’s wings as it strained to lift itself into the current, until it finally found the…

(Archangel: artist unknown)



Poem From ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love





Gliding above the ruins of the world’s broken soul

destruction and mutation speak in parables of the

ignoble…