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Matt McGee | Selected poems
Waking Up in Strange Places I’d been hacking away for two days on a new story about a girl with the moon over her shoulder, the words shooting out like a dream but the ending wouldn’t come, it...
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Marisa Urgo | After the Fall and After That
“Leah! Good news and bad news.” Will sounded hurried, as he always did at the start of our calls. The busiest man I’ve ever met, Will began briskly, likely running to an audition or callback, but...
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Bill Vernon | Government Property
MY MOTHER SAID she thought I’d already made up my mind, then walked away. “Hey,” I said, “this is just one option out of many.” But something so dramatically different from going to school or working...
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Robert Wolfe | The Absolute Enigma
MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, my (second) wife and I divorced, after ten years of marriage. We both had looked forward to our years ahead with each other and had planned for a comfortable retirement. I...
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Movies You Might’ve Missed: Dreams of Awakening
NO DOUBT the two best-known movies about “dreaming our reality” are The Matrix and Inception. The Matrix is, of course, about waking up to the fact that we’re sleepwalking through our existence, while...
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Samuel K. Wilkes | Night Swimming
FRANK COCKED HIS HEAD and looked to me for the answer. I could tell he wanted to say something. What’s the matter? He cocked his head the other way. I dropped to my knees, as if getting closer might...
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Brock Travis | Perfection Teaching
RECENTLY I WENT DOWN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to see my old friend James, who is ninety. He says his legs are getting weak. He doesn’t see or hear well any more. During the visit I had to help him with...
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Martin Willitts, Jr. | Selected poems on darkness and awakening
The Impossible Lack of Ability to Comprehend “Where is the end of it, the soundless wailing…” — T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, The Dry Savages, line 49 I do not know much of God. For what I know is...
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Dreams of Awakening | An interview with Charlie Morley
I stumbled upon a videotaped interview with Charlie Morley on www.conscious.tv and was instantly hooked on his premise: that one could use one’s sleeping hours for spiritual practice. One could...
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Christopher Santiago | A Glimpse
…And the world undressed itself, naked against my ambivalent eyes, and I caught glimpses of what it really was. A spontaneous selection of limitless colors, angles that broke the simplicity of...
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