Literature & Poetry
Beauty in language and the art of storytelling.
End Times
The unending nature of infinities and forever that repeats over and over through the cosmos and nature's laws in the destiny of a small soul's minute journey through the vastness of space and the immensity of time.
4 Poems by Barbara Siegel Carlson
The natural world teaches lessons about human life and its expansion into the spiritual and metaphysical. Winter branches and onions become metaphors for larger truths. Art and music are also inspirations to deeper understanding.
Vocational
"Vocational" is a micro-narrative that explores the depth of memory particularly through the lens of religion. This poem hopes to have achieved that religion and the spiritual life permeates every choice and is able to be arrived back to after a lapse, while also grappling with the middle.
Ode to the Rug on My Living Room Floor
An intimate look at new and old love, with inherited memories and objects giving life to new ones in nuanced but familiar ways. The poem, rich in texture and sound, allows the reader to situate themselves in the love of once-new things, now washed in the fondness and grief of time passed.
Every Howling Thing
As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.
Stillness Between Pages
A reflection on daily reading
Black Box
A short fiction piece about a girl, a girl, a hallway, a kitchen, and perhaps another glass of wine.
crab apple
A poem about crab apples and self-acceptance, when who you are doesn’t seem to be ‘enough’ in someone else’s eyes.