Click here to read part 1 of the series, The Philosopher King
Click here to read part 2 of the series, Minions’ Lament
By Rachel Artenian
This tale of woe I must relate
To save an innocent from my fate
Concerning a cat that is totally ruthless,
Penny the cat, who is practically toothless
By Cathy Colman
“There is no snow pack. Only one year of water left.”—Governor of California, Jerry Brown
Sometimes the earth tells and retells her story.
Throws figurines, makes the doors stutter,
weathered wood flies apart like toothpicks.
We are not listening. We live on behalf of strangers.
We live on the surface. It’s the only place.
I can see grooves
from the water’s former sluice, from the riot where
the meadow confessed its obsession for red. Somewhere,
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
-E.L. Doctorow
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