Lord of the broken lot as I used to hear on late night TV I can accept your baggage which we carry together you say I miss you in a new way this year I betray my […]
Danzhu Hu
DANZHU HU is an award-winning visual storyteller, currently specializing in illustration and fine art painting. After graduating with a B.E. degree, she received her master’s degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology, MFA Illustration program. Hu loves exploring the infinite possibilities of visual storytelling by experimenting with different media. For her, it’s all about playfulness. Her work is whimsical yet vulnerable, playful yet melancholic, with a touch of symbolism. Through her practice, Hu wishes to create a world where the most cryptic, subtle, and complicated emotions can be captured, translated, and cherished.
Psalm with Static
When the Bough Breaks
by Lesley Bannatyne
I am watching my daughter nursing the baby. She is incandescent, my daughter, like a Renaissance Madonna. Her skin is alabaster and her hair haloes in the sunlight that slips through the kitchen window and slides off the bones of her face. It’s the gorgeous hair some women get while pregnant—mine grew six inches during […]
On Introspection
by Merridawn Duckler
Surprising how much of it is song. Much is lyric. Under that, admonition, calling yourself names before someone does. Open question who someone else consists of. Thinking how often it all ends in a dangling participle. Why is it bad. Or, to put it another way, what does this world consist of. Manufactured conversations. Some […]
