JOHN BENNETT (originally sent to Bennett’s email list, to which he daily sends ‘short jabs’, poems, and his signature ‘Shards’) To break free even for a few minutes each day
Fiction & Poetry
ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) I was born weak. My parents were ill-matched, unhappy, poor ill-prepared for the challenges of their time & place they had
JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) He was trying to get original he put his left shoe on his right foot & his right one on the
JOHN BENNETT (poem originally sent to Bennett’s email list) Sometimes I miss the old days when I hustled college kids in bars to a race on the track for beer
JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) There they sit, plugged in or snatching cues from the atmosphere,
JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email Shard list) Spring is here and business is picking up. I put
HUBERT HUMDINGER To the housefly who flew a rectangle over my head, buzzed in and out of the beam
JOHN BENNETT (this Shard originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) Chøgyam Trungpa was a Buddhist bad boy into crazy
DOUG DRAIME (re-posted from Speed of Light with permission from the author) Before there was anything, there had to be everything. Before there was everything, there had to be always. Before there