transcendentzeropress Tamara Lakomy is an archaeologist, specializing in the occult practices of indigenous people, herself of Berber Amazigh and Slavic descent. She runs a foundation that operates in East Africa, specializing in the cultural preservation of indigenous tribes, women’s rights and education, she also advises foreign governments on policy. She’s a priestess in training having embraced […]Read Post ›
Tamara Lakomy is an archaeologist, specializing in the occult practices of indigenous people, herself of Berber Amazigh and Slavic descent. She runs a foundation that operates in East Africa, specializing in the cultural preservation of indigenous tribes, women’s rights and education, she also advises foreign governments on policy. She’s a priestess in training having embraced […]Read Post ›
Tamara Lakomy is an archaeologist, specializing in the occult practices of indigenous people, herself of Berber Amazigh and Slavic descent. She runs a foundation that operates in East Africa, specializing in the cultural preservation of indigenous tribes, women’s rights and education, she also advises foreign governments on policy. She’s a priestess in training having embraced […]Read Post ›
This excellent review impresses me most because it interweaves the author’s personal life as dentist with his work as author and poet. We see how the two different personalities are self-complimentary. One’s personal life is what one writes about, after all. I also appreciate the approach the reviewer takes concerning Sengupta’s anti-dogmatic worldview and his […]Read Post ›
These poems were selected for inclusion in the Selfhood anthology. Thank you to all who participated! River—Lynn White Faultline—Bonnie Emerick American Nightmare—Jim Landwehr English Teacher Attempts a Haiku—Katherine Sanger Naked—Lana Bella Benevolence—Sandra Kolankiewicz Witch Hunt—Jennifer Lagier Only Years from When She Held a Doll—Lyn Lifshin Madness: A Schizophrenic’s Look—Linda Woolven Art of Life—Bob Ingram […]Read Post ›
Tomorrow my winds will host the sail That will carry me through deep voids of river. Senseless my heart strains, expecting to see Some quiet night. Love is universal treasure And separation is a trying sorrow, And remembering your heart’s glance at moon’s Sweet glow is only a daytime grief. Take heed, my love, as […]Read Post ›
Deep in the mouth cradles an urge, Powerful and sublime, to calm fires Of surreal nothingness. Eat the ripe, soft fruit of hope! As it falls from the shading tree, Hold the light, dream love, And fold the spirit in a yawn.
Title: Bougainvillea and Other Stories Author: Bitan Chakraborty Translated by: Pranab Ghosh Published by: Shambhabi—The Third Eye Imprint, Calcutta (India) Date: May, 2016 ISBN: 97893-85783-99-9 Price INR 200 (USD 7.50) Page count: 138 Reviewed by: Saktipada Patra Bitan Chakraborty’s Bougainvillea and Other Stories is a collection of six short stories translated from their original Bengali […]Read Post ›
Night swimming through the sweaty haze of an ice cream tangle your body, mine dancing their exchange in summer’s darkness. I enter night’s hot mouth still feeling the pressure of your hands, your scents my unabashed secret joining echoes of the thousand midnight secrets shirtless restless masses keep while praying to their fan blades for salvation as subway dins cut descants through bar noise and old radios, cooked sidewalk garbage bucks and grinds with roasting chicken gets tapped out by watermelon, sleepless souls in bed change soaking pillows for the cool sweet mercy of a Virgin …sure, she’ll rise up pale and holy from this dirty street but not tonight oh please God, not tonight.
With this kiss, take my words and find them in your mouth, the silence is our ballad, the stillness – our dancing, we are of another world, standing in our bodies without movement, but flying as whirlwinds of stars, as the waltzing soul. My heartbeat is a riotous chanting, it has called you since time […]Read Post ›
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