I was speaking with a friend, Nina Brewton, about the Quaker attitude toward gay marriage. There isn’t a Quaker attitude toward gay marriage per se; as with many other religions there are ideas as to what the congregants, religious leaders and their sect’s orthodoxy dictate must be the proper observed attitude toward gays and gay [...]
I’d seen beauty but once, Radiant as a shore sunrise, Aglow with a spirit-light Lighting my dreams all at once. In those eyes stars shone Candles lit casting at shadows, Stretching pillowed smiles as arrows, Breathing life into my soul’s home. Ebon skin, dusk-coated, brown, Aloft ‘ere wind kisses love-touched sky, Eternal bliss to transit [...]
At the end we broke everything. Or it was already broken at the beginning. In the bedroom clothes were waiting in the hamper for the wash. My bras and panties and your boxers and undershirts, my jeans and tees, your shorts and sweat socks. The room was divided and the sides didn’t meet except when [...]
Author Nina Brewton’s Dramas of a Bald Head Queen is the story of a journey through a life that’s quite a lot like yours: a search for truth, the stories of ties that bind family, a quest for discovery. We’ve included an excerpt from her recently released memoir below. We think you’ll enjoy it and hope you [...]
There is beaded silver rainwater outside my window. It is beat-beat-beating the brown painted peeling Weathered swollen pane. These mornings before the Beginnings of everything serve to dull the white Throb of settling sadness spreading up from parted Pistoning silences, born of dark failures of my dying Selves. The rainwater is sh-sh-sliding down and I [...]