Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Five Poems by Sanjeev Sethi

We let no flügelhorn animate the atmosphere. Our presence drew the stelliferous to a party of two. In the reign of rhythms, we repeatedly heard our song; meaningful to us but mute to the others. That is how strains are or should be.

Philosophy & Ethics

A Chance to Make It

Cosmic re-enactment in the path of Ars Regia.

Literature & Poetry

POEM: Corpuscules in Corners

I want to work back to that intuition I had of the infinity of the self— that this world is bursting at its seams and margins with the divine. Is coming home to oneself like turning from ashes and ashes to dust in corners?

Philosophy & Ethics

The Philosophy of Quantum Physics 7: Is Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?

A look at different philosophical interpretations of quantum physics. This is the seventh post in the series.

Philosophy & Ethics

Time and Eternity: Is the Kingdom in the Present?

Time is like reading a single page at a time, while eternity is like holding the entire book in your hands and seeing all pages simultaneously.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin

The journalism of Joan Didion has an askant attitude towards the world. It is as if it has, the result of some sort of carelessness, accidentally fallen out of time and lies there as refuse on the floor waiting for it to be all over.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: 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.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: 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.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: 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.

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: 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.