Last year was a truly great year for alternative sounds. No, not alternative music, alternative sounds… Let me explain, alternative music as a genre has died. In its place is an amalgam of diverse sounds, so well put together you wonder why someone hadn’t thought of it before (or maybe they did and this the […]
Category: Issue 4
Issue 4
Return of the White Reggae (Voodoo in the Cuckoo by Jaundis I) – keifel a. agostini Dancing to Keep From Dying (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf) – Lisa Allen-Agostini
A Phone Sex Primer
RECIPE FOR A… The regularly scheduled feature will be pre-empted for this month only. In its place would be this equally entertaining instruction manual. A PHONE SEX PRIMER Get comfortable, preferably with a hands free phone…you and your partner should relax with casual conversation; pets, current affairs…politics and religion should be avoided at all costs. […]
Meditations on a New York postcard
Meditations on a New York postcard when migrating thoughts reach across borders to the land of apple pie, stereotype bullies its way to the fore, freeing its bright lights to terrorize; loosing its skyscrapers to stalk the premises of international imaginations. My voice is silenced beneath the rumble of the subway’s roar, forcing foreign ears […]
Easy and other poems
EASY Lace tight across my chest (Designer quality-not designer prices) Sweat running down my thighs greasy as a Christmas turkey. Eye contact. Push out my chest swing my hips lick those lips. What are you waiting on…ass! come my way. Make a play. Respect my beauty. Hold your crotch- Not too much. Lick my neck. […]
For Tim and other poems
For Tim After you leave I mouth the candy words I know would make you stay. It seems you’re always going somewhere without me. I can only talk to you when you’re fast asleep I know what you,ll look like when you’re old I wish I could be an adult just long enough to know […]
Onan’s Sin (For Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s NEGUS)
I am tired of keening in oblivion Empty words of an extinct species Saying nothing Meaning nothing Being nothing. Where is the word that trumpets freedom screams truth beats down the gates of pretense and takes eternity by the throat? Where is the word of blood and body? Where is the living word? A […]
Song of the Warrior
Carnal is this thirst of mine for the knowledge you conceal deep within your forest. I hear your call and come and I am all things discoverer, cartographer, lover. Weary with want belittled by your beauty I am an amerindian praising the gods that made the deep blue caribbean come rockpools into whick i will […]
Issue 4
Song of the Warrior – Candyce Kellshall Onan’s Sin – Lisa Allen-Agostini For Tim and other poems – Holly Lelana Day Meditations on a New York postcard and other poems – Kiini Ibura Salaam Easy and other poems – Aisha Jones
John
He took his glasses off, with both hands, and placed them gently on the desk. He closed his eyes for a moment. the window was not completely shut and the papers on the desk stirred in the faint draught. He stretched his arms above his head, and looked about him, trying to find his pen […]