Still Life after seeing DaVinci’s Study of Violets & Welding Methods The twin reading lamps behind the hotel room bed are imitation Ming vases – green and decorated with white curving plumes. Their half shades reflect the light back onto the wood paneling behind […]
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Pilgrimage by Julie Stielstra
I left the ashes today. Walked the 3 miles up from Assisi to Francis’s hermitage. Dug a spot in the woods on the hill under ivy and ferns, and read all the names out loud. Cats, dogs, horses…Francis will have to look after them for […]
When the Fountains Ran Dry by Tej Rae
Rome: August 2017 To return to Rome at the end of summer is to find a city altered. Where water flowed from waist-high fountains in June, now their drains are chalky instead of slippery-green. A drought stalks the city. I hear imagined trickles the way a […]
Sacred and Profane Images in Venice and Padua By Bernie Langs
Travel Essay: The laws and edicts are laid out in the Old Testament in exacting terms specifying the ornaments, utensils and measurements for these objects utilized in the holy temple and for the division of spaces designated as sacred from those places for mortals. The biblically […]
Carouge by John Barrett
The tram from Geneva winds slowly with the contour of Carouge’s terraced tenements, into a sweeping bend.
Venice via Haiku
Kelly Westhoff: Photos/Postcards BIO: Kelly Westhoff writes essays and haiku. Her essays have appeared in Motherwell, The Star Tribune, Minnesota Bride, GoNomad, and more. Her haiku have been published in Mineral Journal and St. Paul Almanac. She lives in Minneapolis, but the […]
