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Kika Tapas
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About Kika Tapas
5 Broad Canal Way
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Kendall Square
For a dining experience that is equal parts chic and delicious, Kika Tapas is your go-to restaurant spot. This Kendall Square-based eatery focuses on modern Spanish tapas and sangrias.
The menu includes over 40 tapas plates and paellas. Each one is hand-crafted and made-to-order, making Kika a wonderful place to take your first date or to celebrate a fun night out.
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Kika Tapas Menu
Dinner is divided into lunch, dinner and wine.
For dinner, Kika Tapas has tried-and-true appetizer favorites such as ceviche (citrus-marinated seafood), croquetas, and entremés (vegetable side dish).
Continue your tapas adventure with:
- Plata de Embutidos (cured Spanish meats & sausages)
- Plata de Quesos (assorted cheese plate)
- Plato Mixto (jamon serrano, assorted cheeses, pimientos & olives)
- Jamon Serrano (cured ham from Spain with toast points)
- Lomo de Buey a Las Frutas (beef tenderloin, dried apricots, prunes, figs & brandy cream sauce)
- Churrasco Argentino (16 oz prime grade rib eye steak with chimichurri)
- Zarzuela (shrimp, squid, scallops, clams & mussels, saffron-herb broth)
Other plates include:
- Ensalada Mixta (mixed green salad)
- Aceituneas (imported marinated olives)
- Patatas Fritas (Basque fries)
- Patatas Bravas (Potatoes with Piquant Tomato & Alioli Sauces)
- Buñuelos (Broccoli & Cauliflower Fritters)
- Alcachofas Salteadas (Sautéed Artichokes)
- Setas al Ajillo (Sautéed Wild Mushrooms)
- Páo de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread)
- Tostada de Alcachofas (Artichoke, Mushroom & Goat Cheese Crostini)
- Arroz y Habas (Rice & Beans)
- Espinacas Gallegas (Sautéed Baby Spinach, Pine Nuts & Raisins)
- Berenjena Rellena (Vegetable & Goat Cheese Stuffed Eggplant Rolls)
- Queso de Cabra Montañes (Baked Goat Cheese in Tomato Basil Sauce)
- Camarones a la Plancha (Grilled Shrimp & Salsa Roja)
- Gambas al Ajillo (Sizzling Garlic Shrimp, pictured above)
- Vieiras al Azafran (Scallops in Saffron Cream)
- Calamares Fritos (Fried Calamari & Chili Infused Tomato Sauce)
- and many more!
Kika Tapas offers delicious food to eat in a great, updated space. Take a visit today.
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This is an incredible story of hope, love, loss, happiness, sadness, and faith. With the loss of their newborn son Austin, Stephanie and Geoff Kallenberger established a non-profit organization, Action for Austin, to spread hope to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit children and families. In this episode of Busy Ladies Debbie talks with Wendy Sides the grandmother of Austin. Learn how this foundation came to be and why it is so important to the families of this adorable little boy they lost too soon. Over the past two years the Action for Austin organization has provided gifts of love and encouragement to those facing very difficult times.

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COMMENTARY | Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to dig himself out from the mother of all gaffes in which he suggested that the State of Israel is in danger of becoming an "apartheid state." The resulting firestorm was huge and bipartisan.
Kerry was quite defensive about his alleged support for Israel.
"I will not allow my commitment to Israel to be questioned by anyone, particularly for partisan, political purposes, so I want to be crystal clear about what I believe and what I don't believe.
"First, Israel is a vibrant democracy and I do not believe, nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that without a shred of doubt."
Still Kerry conceded that he may have misspoke and expressed the wish that he could "rewind the tape."
In a way Kerry has brought Democrats and Republicans together in condemnation to his smear of Israel with both Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Tex Cruz expressing outrage. Cruz, understandably, took to the senate floor and demanded Kerry's head in the form of a resignation. Sadly Kerry is not likely to do the decent thing and comply. He is just content to suggest that he was for name calling Israel before he was against it.
The flap is somewhat telling of the dolorous state of Obama foreign policy. The current administration has managed to make America's enemies despise her, her friends afraid of her, and the American people outraged. It is quite a hat trick for the man who was elected to fix what he thought was George W. Bush's foreign policy mistakes. But next to him, the younger Bush is increasingly being seen as a Prince Talleyrand in comparison. With Bush, one knew where one stood. He was not in the habit of insulting allies and appeasing enemies. Sadly the current president is in the habit of doing both, much to the detriment of America's standing in the world.


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Jaelan Phillips is one of the nation's top defensive end prospects and had a strong showing at The Opening Finals. Phillips is still getting used to playing with his hand down and rushing out of a three point stance after playing primarily linebacker the past few seasons. That's the thing with Phillips, as good as he is now, he's not even close to hitting his ceiling and his upside is off the charts.
He was chosen as one of the top five defensive linemen in the event by the Student Sports staff to take part in the 'best on best' competition Sunday and actually took a rep from tackle Foster Sarell, who was arguably the best player in this event, regardless of position.
Phillips has a great frame, measured in at 6-foot-5, 241 pounds, with plenty of room to pack on an additional 20 pounds or so. He is making a jump athletically and tested very well running a 4.65-40, threw the power ball 47' and jumped 31" in the vertical. He plays with a tremendous motor and is a high energy player and has future team captain written all over him.
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Phillips committed to the UCLA Bruins back in April and remains rock solid in his decision.
Amy Campbell:
I'm Amy Campbell with Scout National Recruiting Analyst, Greg Biggins, out here at The Opening, evaluating defensive end prospect, Jaelan Phillips, a newer five-star. Has he lived up to it out here on the big stage?
Greg Biggins:
He has. You know, I think for me, and talking to Todd Huber, the lead OL-DL coach, he's probably been the most impressive of all the defensive linemen. He's big—6'5", 230 pounds. Still kind of new, in terms of playing defense. You know, he actually played linebacker, so he's not used to playing with his hand down. But he's probably been the best outside pass rusher. Again, I love the length; I love the burst off the edge. Love the toughness, the quickness, the overall aggressiveness he plays with. I think he definitively is a true five-star, and he's played like it all weekend.
Amy Campbell:
How do you see him fitting in at the college level?
Greg Biggins:
You know, I think he's a guy who can come in and play early. He's a multi-positional guy. He can play a 3-4 or a 4-3 scheme. He can play that outside linebacker as a 3-4. He can play that true rush end. Again, he's 6'5" 230, he's gonna be 260. He has that kind of frame, and he's incredibly strong with a great work ethic off the field. So again, I think he can play a lot of roles, and I think he can play early.


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A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the Lord.
1 Lord, hear my prayer!
12 But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever.
18 Let this be recorded for future generations,
23 He broke my strength in midlife,
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Is this a downloadable mod? Looks good
Unfortunately the mod does not correspond to the requirements to be here released.
Too bad, I"m sure many would like to try it out. Thanks.
Yes, a pity, especially because Dave Purdy did physics. This is a guarantee of driving pleasure.
Looks good for sure, is it available somewhere else?
This week, small note in the discription on youtube. follow the link
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GORUCK Tough aka Challenge is GORUCK's flagship event. Originally named "The Challenge" the event has since been re-branded as "The Tough" but you'll both versions around. It's the original event that GORUCK started with and continues to be the most popular event that they put on. The GORUCK Tough lasts 10 – 12 hours and covers a distance of 15 – 20 miles. Each event is different which is why so many people find reading AARs (after action reviews) useful. The differences are also a key factor in why so many people sign up for more events. An AAR is a summary of what happened during the action… in this case the "action" is the GORUCK Tough event. Check out some of these GORUCK Tough AARs to see what your next GORUCK Tough event might be like.
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The mystery BrickHeadz are...Posted by Huw,
Pirates of the Caribbean!
The ninth and tenth in the first series of Brickheadz are 41593 Captain Jack Sparrow and 41594 Captain Armando Salazar.
LEGO has not announced them yet, and they are not for sale today with the other ten BrickHeadz, but given they are shown on the back of the box and in the instructions of the Beauty and the Beast pair which are now available in brand stores and shop.LEGO.com, there's no longer a reason for us not to reveal them.
So, see a large picture after the break and let us know what you think in the comments.
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are these available to VIP's in store? or just online?
In store as well.
Thanks Huw
Still not interested
My orders are in, and the SDCC Brickheadz arrived yesterday so a full house soon..
I still don't like the design of these.
How come these are not online? Any idea?
Captain Salazar is a very frightening-looking character but I don't think the BrickHeadz figure resembles him well enough... Sparrow looks nice, though.
To be honest, I was hoping for star wars brickheadz. Maybe they will come in the next series? Jack Sparrow looks great, althouth i'm not a PotC fan, so don't know who the other guy is. They look great still.
>How come these are not online? Any idea?
To be released 1st March I suspect, and officially revealed at the NY to fair this weekend.
I tried to order them this morning on lego.com but there was an error so had to call and order with customer services. They told me they didn't know when jack sparrow and salazaar will go on sale? Does anyone know if Westfield Shepherds bush store has them?
I don't know about anyone else, but the first thing I thought when I saw them is that I could totally see that vertical 1x2 tile on Sparrow's belt being reused as a raw piece of bacon.
Jack's moustache looks like the mouth on a manta ray.
Very cool. I hope they make Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts brickheads in the future.
For a moment I thought it was Edward Scissorhands and a Johnny Depp theme...
Jack is easily recognizable but not Salazar although the gosht pirate looks cool.
Meh... I'd rather have had some other characters. PotC lost it's charm long ago.
Although I can see some of the prints, etc being quite useful.
@wunztwice PotC did NOT loose its charm a long time ago, you might not like it anymore but many people do, and if it lost its charm why would they be making another movie?
@dedgecko Wow that does look like bacon! Nice spot!
@jacob1998 I agree these look great but i was also looking forward to star wars. Hopefully in the future!
Wow - those look amazing!
I am a really big POTC fan, but I still do not know who the ghostly guy is.
Never even heard of this Captain Salazar.
Jack Sparrow has some cool pieces/colours, but I still don't like this theme. Funny that my absolute favorite is the Greedo MOC from the excellent "anatomy" article by Huw, which isn't even an official Lego BrickHeadz set. Perhaps it also looks better because it has more greebling/detail than the official ones, most of which look too "flat"/plain imho.
The Block Headz range is a cool idea. I hope they do one of the Doctor from Doctor Who - maybe as a Series 10 tie-in with Bill and Nardole.


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Paresh Rawal made a mark with grey shades in films like Ram Lakhan, Jigar, Damini and Auzaar before being noticed in comedies. The actor however denies bidding adieu to villain roles.
Asked if he was drifting towards doing more comic roles now, he said: "This is not true. I have done films like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Firaaq, Youn Hota To Kya Hota in which I am not at all doing comedy but playing a serious character."
"I am waiting for the right kind of negative character that I would love to play and still find it challenging enough," he added.


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This week, our cover story in the print edition of New Times dispenses a ten-step program on how you can jump in on the medical marijuana craze that is expected to hit Florida soon and become a pot mogul.
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Writer Francisco Alvarado went out and did all the research on what it takes to become a marijuana entrepreneur and learned it's not as easy as it might seem.
The story follows Bob Calkin, a man who runs the Cannabis Career Institute, and his packed seminars at which he teaches ordinary folks what it takes to become a pot baron.
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Aprons are something that everyone takes for granted. No one stops to think about the origins of such a garment or how it has evolved. Yet, aprons are widely used in different trades and come in different shapes, sizes, designs and makes.
Early History
The apron is said to have originated in France and the word is said to be derived from the French word 'napperon" which means doily or napkin. In some of the Pyramids Egypt, there are ancient paintings where human figures are depicted wearing a garment that closely resembles an apron. In Central America and China, there are sculptures of Gods wearing an apron like garment. Some of this dates back to 2000BC. Even the Bible is said to have references to a garment that resembles the modern day apron. The modern use of the apron can be dated back as far as the twelfth century AD.
It has been said that men were the first to wear the garment as a form of protection when they went about their work. The Masonic apron can be considered as the first precursor of the modern day apron and lamb skin was used to make the aprons. Later, other materials were used to make the garment and its use spread to other trades as well. Mostly white or dark colors were used then by the wearer.
Changing Trends
Towards the beginning of the sixteenth century, the garment was more in use and the color of the apron denoted the trade for which it was used. For example, barbers sported checkered aprons while butchers were seen wearing green. It was only towards the eighteenth century that the apron began to make its way into homes. Homemakers started wearing aprons to protect their clothes from getting dirty while carrying out their duties at home. The eighteenth century also saw the appearance of apron dresses mostly worn by school kids.
Women started extensively using aprons of different kinds as a part of their attire and the apron started to be viewed more as a woman's garment. Various styles like long, short, half, straight line, crocheted aprons, skirt aprons, bib aprons, tuxedo aprons began to gain popularity during the nineteenth century. Cooks began using aprons extensively in their trade as a protective garment as well as to wipe their hands and store things in the pocket. Aprons began appearing in movies, magazines, on celebrities and on the fashion ramp. New materials were used to make aprons in various styles. The apron thus became a household name.
The journey of the apron has been a long and prosperous one. Though viewed as a garment worn solely by women sometime during the eighteenth century, it has now regained its true image. Today you cannot imagine restaurants, stores and factories without aprons. Their popularity has led to specialty stores selling aprons as well as books being written about them. They have become part and parcel of everyday life.


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Far too many people jump straight into a job search and start applying for jobs without fully thinking about what exactly it is that they are looking for. Depending on where you are in your life, career, relationships and financial needs, each time you start a job search, the situation will be slightly different. By thinking through your current situation, your limits, your aspirations and your priorities, the job search becomes clearer and you can realistically begin to tackle your next move.
Start by clearly defining what your needs are. If you are just getting started these will be very different than if you are more established in your career. But it is important that you think deeply about these questions and be honest with yourself. Ask yourself questions about every aspect of what makes you an individual. Key sections to focus on are life, location, personal and work questions. Below you will find a summary of each focus area. Refer to our newest book, section 1 of Sustainability Jobs for the full list of questions.
Ask yourself some of these questions when you are thinking about your career. Has something changed in your life that has you considering a career or transition into sustainability? In other words, what drives you to make this choice and what are the things you need most from this new career? Additionally, take stock of your current personal situation. Do you have plans in the near future that will affect your decision making process?
Location is intertwined with all other aspects of life; it affects personal relationships, quality of living, hobbies available and many more. When considering a career or career transition ask yourself where you want to live and work and how that location can align with your goals. Do you want to stay local? Are you open to relocating?
The only person who is an expert on yourself is you. Take time to narrow down your strengths, areas for improvement, and values. As Steve Jobs once said "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
When thinking about work questions, strive to figure out exactly what type of work you want to do and how you will be able to make a difference doing this work. It is also important to identify what you are unwilling to do and the work atmosphere that is important to you.
Individual strengths are what differentiate you as a candidate for any job. Take the time to introspectively survey your wants, beliefs and actions to understand how you can best make a difference and effect change and land your dream job. Once you have found the answers to the questions presented in the sections above create a unique elevator pitch to answer why you are the ideal candidate for the job.
What questions are you going to ask yourself from the list above when you look for your next position? If you want to find out more, or have a resource to help you think through the job hunt process, check out our latest book Sustainability Jobs. It's chalk full of worksheets and tips from sustainability professionals.


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Medicare for All Bill
Congressional Co-sponsors
Other Links
Medicare for All Bill
Congressional Co-sponsors
Other Links
Wed. Oct. 16, 2013: Call-In Day for HR 676, Single Payer Health Care
Washington, DC. Fifteen national and state organizations, including Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care—HR 676, have designated Wednesday, October 16, as a call-in day to members of Congress to increase co-sponsors for HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.
The call in day was initiated by Progressive Democrats of America (PDA).
Passage of HR 676 would bring all medically necessary care, including dental, drugs, and long term care, to every person in the United States. Yet this single payer plan would bring costs under control by removing the for-profit health insurance companies. Each person will choose their physicians and hospitals, and there will be no deductibles and no co-pays.
Please call your member of Congress on Wednesday, October 16 to urge him or her to sign on as a co-sponsor of HR 676.
Call the congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your representative by name. You can find your representative by entering your zip code at this link: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
HR 676 has 51 co-sponsors in the current 113th session of Congress in addition to initial sponsor John Conyers (D-MI). That list of current co-sponsors is here: http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/676/cosponsors?q...
After you speak with your representative, you can also call one or more of the 32 representatives listed below who were formerly co-sponsors of HR 676 and are still members of Congress. These representatives were already convinced at an earlier time and need to be reminded of the need to sign on to HR 676 again.
Bass, Karen, CA 37th
If your local union or CLC has not yet endorsed HR 676, please do so. You can find a sample resolution here: http://unionsforsinglepayer.org/tools/sample_resolution
Every action you take helps when you're building a movement! The national AFL-CIO Convention first endorsed HR 676 in 2009 and recently reaffirmed its commitment to national single payer health care in two resolutions passed at the 2013 Convention.


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On this page: poems by John B. Lee, Luke Armstrong, Esther Cameron, Iris Dan, Esther Lixenberg-Bloch, jacob erin-cilberto, Birgit Talmon, Gregory Gunn, Rose Auslander, Paul Jeffcutt, Bernice Lever
The following works are copyright © 2010. All rights reserved. No distribution or reprinting in any form whatsoever without written permission from the authors.
John B. Lee's work has appeared internationally in over 500 publications. He has over 60 prestigious awards to his credit including being the only two-time winner of the People's Poetry Award and winner of the prestigious $10,000 Candian Literary Award for poetry (CBC Radio/Saturday Night Magazine). He has over 40 books in print. A recipient of letters of praise from both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, he was made Poet Laureate of Brantford in perpetuity in 2005.
And for All of That
I stand on the steps
Of the Cathedral of the Virgin
of El Cobre
contemplating Catholicism
and the syncretic Santería of Cuba
Manuel tells me
that he is transported
backwards through time
to when he was last here
as a lad of four
holding the hand
of his young mother
who was lovely then
with her long black hair
in her Sunday summer dress
and I see
on the distant hillside
the monument
dedicated to the copper-mine slaves
many who died in chains
moiling in the earth
like those who seek
with broken hands
the lost and lackluster
spirit of history
faded like painted statuary
voiceless in pale-blue
woman-shaped wood
carved and carried
on not-quite-round-wheeled wagons
"yo soy la virgen de la caridad"
and I will not
stay put
I will come to you
on the language of the sea
I will remove
myself from this fixed station
I am
the dark mestiza beauty
I am Orisha of the island spirit of the wind
and I think also
of my wife
as a little girl
ascending with her mother
the stone steps
of Sainte-Anne de Beauprés
that escalade
littered with abandoned crutches
as the crippled
and the maimed
the disabled and the lame
clung to the bone ladder
of belief
praying for a miraculous
kindness lying
like marionettes dropped in tangles
at the pierced foot of the cross
she in memory
as a little girl
frightened by the multifarious disfigurements
is remembering that
day of confused faith
and I look in the Cathedral
here in the clutter on the wall
search for and cannot find
Hemingway's Nobel medal
the one he gave
as tribute to
the Virgin of Charity
the talisman
a gift he had surely forgotten
the hour he took
his own life
with a shotgun in his mouth
and for all of that
the hour life took him
and shook loose his crimsoned soul
like a dog shaking a rat
in the blood-spattered sorrow
of his dark rose of despair
and I pray
in this place
for a sacred intervention
because death is real
and suffering deep
and memory impoverished by falsity
and a fool's fondness
for the mendacity of a prettified past
is not to be trusted
I want it all
I acknowledge the necessity
of seeing everything
because only everything is enough
and less than that
is never love
less than that
and the copper
stays in the earth
In 2007, after finishing degrees in Philosophy and English at La Pontificada Universidad, Chile, Luke Maguire Armstrong spent 10 months backpacking from Chile to Alaska. He made it as far as Guatemala where for two years has been the director of the educational development organization Nuestros Ahijados. The program works to educate 4,000 orphaned and abandoned children so they can break the vicious cycle of generational poverty. His book of "poetry and fun" iPoems for the Dolphins to Click Home About is available on Amazon.com.
Frequently Asked Questions Broaching The Answers Thrown Into A Guam Bound Bottle
When we are damaged we look at what wheels will turn:
How the beautiful began looking beyond the mirror on her wall,
Why the vegan ate the burger when the hunter couldn't pull the trigger,
Which types of loneliness lead to depression, which depressions lead to art,
And what art forms save another's humanity,
What wars are worth fighting and which death tolls are acceptable,
How we are all pro life until circumstances arise…
Why the God in the mosque, is not the God in the church, is not the
God in your heart, is the gray God of justified tragedy,
Why his god disagrees with her god, why one god, why two gods,
Why three gods in one god, why not her god in his god, why red
Gods and blue gods and green gods and living gods and dead gods
And risen gods and fallen gods and failing gods or no gods?
Who are these hordes of anonymous women on the Internet,
What is upsetting all the bloggers,
Why the darkness of our soul ceases the day we have no soul,
How the original virtue was that life went on after the first sin,
Why Cain wandered the Earth looking for something,
When Abel was just beginning to feel loved…
Why love? Why Love? Why Love?
Why lovers have hated, have hurt and harmed, have wondered, weltered and wandered, Have turned moment to memory to music, seeing the searcher as the sought, spotting Common ground in a shared gaze, navigating the map-less mutuality of reflexive lines of Sight, considering in quiet contemplation these intangibles, only to arrive at the Realization that, even if it was not what we were searching for, we will be thankful that The journey is not over and there is still enough daylight creeping in the naked corners of The sky to light our way towards darkening horizons where we can only assume we'll find:
Real verse, scribbled anonymously on bathroom stall walls,
Real depth, the last choke of a MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
The wildest flowers, those given in the hope of reconciliations, plotted and un-potted abruptly to throw towards a departing lover the waking dream of vanishing revelations,
The truest prayers, those leaking from the hopeful mouths of unbelievers, ecumenical atheists casting buoyant nets past the edge of their earlier assumptions,
The truest poet, not searching for poetry, throwing his only inked sheet into
A bottle, which swallowed by the sea, will float towards Guam…
When The Sinless Sunbeams Raped Me
How I used to admire strong arms,
Before I knew all their uses,
Hands can plant a garden,
Hands can help and hold,
And hands can grab your
Shoulders, while strong arms
Pin you down, and it's not the
Coolness of the ground, or
That the others only cheer,
It's not because he roared,
"Open your eyes!" so he could
Know the rancid emotions
Screaming across my face, not
Because I was drowning underneath
The weight of more than just him,
But because when the blood had
Dried and then was washed away
Without the past, when we all
Woke up to the agreement that
It had been my fault, I was the
Guilty one, me being so young,
But still capable of forgetting my
Headdress and thus lighting the fires
Of male lust to thrust my body down,
That I never told them who was really
To blame was the sinless sunbeams, who
Had spurred me on to leave my headdress home,
So that I could feel the girlish joy of those
Bright beams soaking into my dim hair,
The palpable part of my happily forgotten past—
The warm sense of love covering my head, filling me.
Going With The Garbage
Tucked away in younger years
at the dinner table of my youth,
when the food did not reach far enough,
the problem was simple and clear:
someone has taken more than their fair share.
Follow your garbage past your front door,
follow it across modern roads that yield to unraveling gravel,
follow it to the mountains of garbage burning across a wandering wild landscape,
follow it through the smoke where forms shimmer human from the haze,
where Maria and Rosa, Hernan and Jose, Julian and Julianita spend their days
plucking bottles from hell, a nickel a pound, ten pounds
a meal, a meal another day of life, another day of life
another day in hell, another day sifting through mounds of
waste: one man's trash is always another's only way.
Follow your garbage to the world where house flies
truly feel at home, where they swarm in absurd abundance,
in and out of lives left low enough to touch and touch and touch and
swarm and swarm and scorn.
Underneath the warm, wet sun shining on our opulence,
shines our world's shrouded sinister sister
Maria's world.
Rosa's world.
Hernan and Jose's world.
Julian and Jualianita's world.
Follow your garbage and see a scared, scarred woman on
a worm riddled dirt floor, on a worm riddled dirt diet,
holding a bundle of malnourishment wrapped in raging rags,
barely sheltered from frequent torrential downpours,
never sheltered from what firewater does to her husband's fists,
whose bright baby eyes gave way to the indifferent grimace of one
who has grasped only grief and grime, where the flies swarm and swarm and scorn.
Follow your garbage and see a girl becoming a woman without
ever getting to grow, see a hope filled boy becoming another man
who inhales glue, who for once felt his pain finally blurred, whose hands stopped picking empty cans, whose shaking hands stopped picking empty cans, whose shaking hands reached for bottles of glue, who felt his pain lessened, who became a father, who became indifferent, who became lost, who became a son, who became his father.
Beneath toxic smoke that will one day kill her, Rosita searches for chicken bones with little bits of life still clinging to them, her thin fingers, those little bones and her absent smile reaching forever into arbitrary masses of a shivery discarded world, rummaging, plummeting, rummaging, burning, flies swarming and swarming and plummeting.
From the beach resort, to where our garbage goes, this is the world
where someone has taken more than their fair share.
See the world as an unmade bed, left undone by fallen ancestors.
How we feed our mind, who touches our heart, who we see as kin,
will decide how we make this bed, will decide who sleeps in a bed,
will decide whose bed is a garbage dump, will decide whose
job is to pick cans and die young, will decide how we sleep at night,
will decide whose bed is the ground, will decide whose mornings are hopeful,
will decide who mourns for what the curable has caused,
will decide if Rosita's downcast eyes ever rise, will decide if we will ever listen
To laughter from her sun loved lips, will decide how her days are numbered.
Esther Cameron was born in 1941 in New York and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Wisconsin in 1964 and her Ph.D. in German at the University of California-Berkeley in 1973. In 1979 she came to Israel, where she lived until 1990. In 1983 a chapbook of poems, Or Mudrag (A Gradual Light), translated by the late Prof. Simon Halkin, was published by HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, which in 1987 also published her memoir Tsade: Nituach 'Atzmi shel Golem (c, or the Autoanalysis of a Golem), translated by Ruth Blumert. In 1985 she received the Peter Schwiefert Prize from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1996 she founded the poetry magazine The Neovictorian/Cochlea, which in 2007 changed its name to The Deronda Review. Her epic poem The Consciousness of Earth was published in installments by Bellowing Ark, and in book form by Multicultural Books. Her memoir Soul's Evidence (an expanded version of her earlier memoir) has also been published in installments by Bellowing Ark. Sifrei Bitsaron has published two of her books: Gargirei Ha'Omer (Grains of the Omer), a cycle of short poems in Hebrew for the counting of the omer (2007), and Fortitude, or The Lost Language of Justice: Poems in Israel's Cause (2009). Her multifaceted oeuvre may be seen on her website, Point and Circumference.
My Mother's War
The spring after my parents wed,
They were still groom and bride,
Together they drove up to view
The New England countryside,
And all their brothers, two and two,
Came along for the ride.
My mother's brothers, Rick and Hal,
And my father's, Mike and Ron,
Gazed at the blossoming apple trees
Under the vernal sun,
And my mother gazed at them and thought:
All these beautiful young men!
Soon after that the war broke out.
My father stayed at home --
He was working for the government --
But the draft board's notice came
To Hal and Rick and Mike and Ron,
And none came back the same, she said,
None came back the same.
How it may be with you, I do not know,
But in the mirror I can seldom see
Myself alone. I see an endless flow
Of thoughts and traits, assembling randomly
Like strangers at a bus-stop, who elsewhere
Are met again in other combinations:
The color of my eyes, and curl of hair,
The love of words and patterns and the impatience
That would not let me teach, are all on loan,
Are grave-goods furbished up for one more use;
And when I speak I catch, as overtone,
The echo of some long-estranged friend's voice,
Who left some gesture, stock phrase, trick of seeing
Behind in the apartment of my being.]
Sabbath Light
I did not know on which page*
was the passage about the light of creation
by which you could see from one end of the world to the other
and which reappears each week to gleam in the light
of the Sabbath tapers.
But my heart,
or the unconscious mind
that is not mine alone
and can still see by that light,
told my fingers
and the book opened at once
to the page I sought.
And this interpretation was whispered
to my mind long ago:
the light of the Sabbath is the light that appears
when we draw aside the curtain of our strife
and see through each other's eyes
and each other's hearts
till there would be one eye
one heart
one mind
did not Havdalah come again.
Queen Sabbath, let me each week
give all into your hands
and give me back the soul
of the Primal Human --
the soul not mine alone,
the soul of peace.
*Of Abraham Joshua Heschel's book The Sabbath
Iris Dan was born in Bukowina, Romania, in a family of Holocaust survivors. She grew up bilingual (German and Romanian), than studied Romance languages at the University of Bucharest, graduating with an M.A. in linguistics. She has been living in Israel since 1980. She is married, has a grown daughter, and works (quite happily) as a translator from and into a number of languages. From her (existential and professional) Babel Tower she sees the Mediterranean. She has written poetry for as long as she can remember, never publishing any, in the last 15 or 20 years, in English only. Recently she has begun to send her poems on their own way and has been published or is forthcoming in the Voices Israel Anthology, Magnapoets, Poetic Portal, Subtletea, and Poetic Diversity.
With My Parents at the Cows' Ball
My father says
the cows have been good
have given good milk
and now –coming down
from up there in the Alps
they are feted and given prizes
like homecoming queens.
(I know he doesn't mean it in earnest
and I know he does.)
My mother says primly
the capable and the hardworking
always succeed. I lower my head,
and my father squeezes my hand.
I show my mother the dancers in folk dress,
Does she think the embroidery is handmade?
She doesn't believe so, but of course
her eyes are fading. It's pretty enough, though, she says.
In her youth she appeared at a Purim ball
in the dress of a Romanian peasant
(much more elaborate and more richly embroidered
than these Slovenian costumes),
and wants to assure me once more
that it suited her marvelously.
My father, who was in timber,
takes me to the sawmill demonstration.
The presenter is shouting, laughing,
having a wonderful time.
My father says, you need a special temperament
to squeeze out such a performance
from operating a sawmill.
What do you think, he asks,
are such people happier on the whole?
I wonder when I will be able
to have such insights, ask such questions.
My mother says, as I approach a stall,
you don't have to buy everything you see
and my father says, let her. She says
don't you dare buying this rough knitwear,
she says don't buy food, at your age
every morsel sticks, but accepts a pancake.
(This is the closest we come to the dead:
thinking their thoughts,
then thinking our own, in reply.)
At noon the cows are led in
and ran through the cheering crowd:
proud owners first
bearing the tools of their trade
prize cows wearing garlands
woven from branches and flowers
mediocre cows wearing nothing
frightened calves
grinning dairymaids
seductive dairy maidens
children submerged under oversized hats
they all pass before me
everything already determined:
who for life and who for death,
who for the pasture and who for the yoke,
who for his seed and who for his meat,
who for her milk and who for her calves
and I see myself pass
now weighed down by a ridiculous garland
which scratches my neck
and makes the other cows hate me
now with my neck shamefully bare
forever branded with my parents' love,
pulled in all directions by a rope
wound from their conflicting
fears and prejudices,
here and there interwoven
with my conflicting own
I see myself, coming home
exams passed
with particularly flying colors
or some other suchlike
equally senseless occasion
jumping from the train
into the arms of my father
the worthiest and proudest of heifers
and see a hunchbacked old woman
pulling a reluctant prize cow by a rope,
the ideal subject to lighten the evening news.
All the cameras flash. The reporters ask questions.
The old woman talks and laughs,
enjoying her moment of glory.
My mother was never so lucky.
Esther Lixenberg-Bloch was born in London in 1952 and studied Textile Design and Fine Art at the Camberwell School of Art. In 1976 she immigrated to Israel. Esther has worked as a needlepoint and embroidery designer, taught art, dressmaking and fashion design, and has written poetry since childhood. Her poems have won honors in both the Reuben Rose and Miriam Lindberg poetry competitions. She has 4 children and 8 grandchildren.
Semantic Wrinkles
Fine lines have begun to creep in
like cracks in the mirror.
Fine lines – not randomly scribbled
but etched with a delicate touch.
Fine lines – are these what are
dubbed on the bottle:
'expression lines'?
Who wants to smooth over
the lines it took years to produce?
And when in the years yet to come
my 'expression lines' multiply,
and drawings grow complex
with time-laboured scratches and whorls,
what a blessing that close-up,
they blur to a fuzzy, streaked scumbling,
and at arm's length, dissolve
in life's myriad, fumbling swirls.
You can't change the shape
of your skull,
the way your thoughts
fit in –
just what takes precedence:
the form abstracted like
a clock face without digits
nibbling pieces of invisible time
the bread and butter skills
that gobble chunks of it –
like catching buses,
filling out tax forms,
the longitude and latitude
of work zones
enmeshing it all.
'You'll live in a garret'
my uncle said,
'subsisting on sardines'.
[He'd heard of Modigliani]
"Who'll marry you if you can't cook?"
was dad's advice, or
"Be a secretary – they earn good pay."
So you push aside the lines,
engender chaos
while the mesh distorts
and brushstrokes dab at trivialities.
And then you try to
re-align the web
that holds your transient veins intact,
between the minute hand
and stunted hour,
that point contrarily
at choices.
Ken "fog" Gilbert aka jacob erin-cilberto, originally from Bronx, NY, now resides in Carbondale, Illinois. erin-cilberto has been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. He currently teaches at John A. Logan and Shawnee Community colleges in Southern Illinois.
His work has appeared in numerous small magazines and journals including: Café Review, Skyline Magazine, Hudson View, Wind Journal, Pegasus, Parnassus and others. erin-cilberto also writes reviews of poetry books for Chiron Review, Skyline Review and others. He has reviewed books by B.Z Niditch, musician Tom Maclear and others. His 11th and newest book of poetry, "An Abstract Waltz," is scheduled for release this December. erin-cilberto has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2006-2008. He also teaches poetry workshops for Heartland Writers Guild, Southern Illinois Writers Guild and Union County Writers Guild.
Demolition 1
coffee table brain
in a house annihilated
a few broken chairs
nothing conventional ever sat in
thoughts lie on a carpet of worn meaning
chaotic filaments of uneven breath
abandoned teapot whistling on the stove
a bookmark notes the stoppage of a life
where much of the novel is left in doubt
cover blurbs full of denial
existence a war of words
fulfillment a tragic poem
published then torn out of the magazine
by the last barrage of bombs
dropped by critics who couldn't keep the siding
on their own conscience
and glass windows so clear
we could see them masturbating within tortured chambers
of frustration
as guilty prologues sang disparaging tunes
at an unattended funeral.
Demolition 2
a well respected man
stiff collar
wide tie
nicely creased pants
but look in his pockets
pilfered promises
scathing words about his peers
adjunct fears
of growing broke
brokering his wealth any way he can
table his retainer
hire him out the door
his smile is dangerous
but he'll draw you in
like a child drawing stick figures in art class
he'll make you his ideal
and you the idealist
will spend the rest of your life
trying to break out of the frame
as he's hung you on his trophy wall
the picture of
a well respected man.
Demolition 3
stay with me awhile
even if you don't mean it
sit quiet and pretend we are still friends
i want to remember you the way you were
in that frail moonlit glow
someone i thought i had gotten to know
someone i gave my heart to
when i was conspicuously naive
hiding the diary in my pocket
as i flinched from the glare
of your vacant stare
absorbing the coldness of your belligerent touch
i sort of loved you much
you became a tattoo i couldn't rub off
and reality is blindness
but i didn't want to see
i just wanted to drain your warmth
into my skin
but as i shivered away the biting wind
of your callous breezy disposition
i was stamped with deceit
like an underage slipping into the bar
illegally partaking a drink of romance
and now here we are,
sitting in silent happenstance
just an afterthought
i'm trying to maintain long enough
to have a memory
even if the moment never really happened,
i'll try to remember you
as if it did.
Demolition 4
flower power drummin'
black power fists flailing
in a lost horizon
there is movement in the beast
and years removed there is a sightless bird
winging its way into silent accord
the arthritised fingers
weakly clenched holding the note
some suicide poet who couldn't change things
with revolver words
shooting his reservoir of saintly messages
into his own head,
leaping out of the chair
the floor a comfortable net
as the hippie with the afro
played his guitar into the ground
to meet the others...
heaven scented sparrows
dictate the song
and books with dusty, untouched spines
fall silent from the shelves
back then we thought of back then
and now we still reflect on back then
when the now is written
into a sunset that seems so final
a rising is absurdity's joke
on us.
Demolition 6
when the writing is tired
and the skeleton of meaning
hangs wearily in the shed of discontent
muddy windows convey complexities
like screaming pigs led to slaughter
words convolute the intensity
and sleepy drums symbolize
i hear the chaos from my typewriter's chamber
but expression's throat is slit
and the blood of a waning poet
shields its eyes
from a morning of latent recognition
because waking up is more painful
than the useless phrases
he conjures up to the beat
knowing he is beaten.
Birgit Talmon is Danish-born. Works as a translator: Danish, English and Hebrew. Has studied prose and poetry with eminent writers in Israel and writes in the above mentioned languages. Has served on Voices Israel Editorial Board. Her works are published on her website www.btalmon.com. She publishes poetry and short stories in all three languages in anthologies and literary magazines in Israel and abroad.
The gap
In my memoirs
Had me turn to
My tools:
Fabric -
A blank page.
Darning needle-
My pen.
My thoughts.
Then, tying
The loose ends,
I fell through
Their flimsy mesh;
Into a
And felt
At peace
At last.
The corridor:
700cm long,
Dangerously flat
Light fixtures
In the low ceiling
To enable
Cabinet doors
To swing open.
All these years
Hesitant fingers
Touch the switch,
Turn on the light,
Each span of time
For fear of overheating
The source of light.
Then comes
The miscalculation
Followed by a torrent
Of broken glass.
After all these years
The light bulb,
Now rid of its
Oppressively hot encasement,
Delivers the tenants from
Premeditated time spans,
- At least in the corridor.
New Beginning
The roadside trees'
Illusive resemblance to
Salt pillars
In our headlights
Is this moment's
Sole guiding framework
As we reel
Deeper into the arid land
Along the narrow path
To a future.
And at ease
I look back,
But alas,
Gone is that
Snuffed out
By the bleak of night;
Gone seems all that
Comprises my past.
Oddly suspended
Past and future
I perceive a faint shiver
Evoked by the tale of
Lot's Wife.
Gregory Wm. Gunn was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1960, grew up in four small towns throughout Ontario before moving to London in 1970. A graduate of Fanshawe College in 1982 as an electronics technician, he has worked in that field ever since. Writing for nearly thirty years, he is most passionate about poetry. Other interests include music, astronomy, philosophy, photography, ancient civilisations, foreign languages, and gardening.
I foresee not another firebird moment,
the triadic-spired sky, the sage grouse
grieving, abrupt an aureate cloudburst
and heart's initial leisure, hypnotic below
lindens by the eldritch sunset glow.
By the blazing lane, our cheerfulness
shall echo: a single blazing instant casts
rays a myriad ways; fiery courses into
genial kinesics, transcending times
tarry, the flesh's fullness ripens.
Contemplate then, my sylvan lady,
this is the terminus of the roc rising,
the ocean-flyer's otherworldly mount:
September too soon will have flown;
first frost tinselling sunflowers & asters
in the starlight, inscribe-summitted
with nimbus and mammatocumulus
muses the immense skyline.
Soak up the raindrops---expand
with serene intensity. Turn over a new
leaf. Broaden as swollen clouds grow.
Beautiful breadth the ploughlands,
and you are laden; so verdant the vines
concealing the bountiful purple yield.
Leaving Suburbia
It became unfeasible to depart
from the neighbourhood,
tripping over serpentine tracks
outmoded. Thrice we wound up
at the filling station then turned
around, unable to avoid the aqueduct;
stone-cold birds, passed on hopes
in the glaucous depths, above
all our undertakings breathed
a spectral entreaty. The beefeaters
and the pious masses doubled
back like hyperboles of our own
desperation, and just like Sirius
the outskirts seemed remotely
gleaming toward faultless fields.
We culminated the course in
an out-of-the-way cul-de-sac
where on the decrepit curb wept
a wizened young girl lamenting
the bottleneck outlet. We U-turned
the truck and circled back.
The sun overarches
dark green pine ridge, puffs
of clouds diffuse like cannon smoke,
lemon rays of light shoot
into my eyes & zigzag like lightning
through the charcoal coloured
patches of ice as I walk
the road into the village.
Mock newspaper kites pitch
over sandy snow mounds,
a plastic shopping bag soars
like a miniature hot air balloon
in the sprightly mid-March wind.
You appear on the corner,
near the cafe like an azure section of sky
approaching me, beaming a high-
cheeked smile, lovely as a bluebell.
This will be the afternoon I finally
muster enough nerve to let you know
how much your carefree floating
in a atmosphere you make
all your own astonishes me.
We step inside the warm
brick-walled room, the hidden
house music of strings charms its patrons,
they chat & laugh, listen with their eyes
amid the clinking of porcelain,
glass & silverware, surrounded
by photographs & paintings,
attended by embroidered linen.
I try to avoid your trenchant gaze,
for fear you'd X-ray my heart,
perceive its dearest wishes
& tender passion, be afraid of it & run.
Vistors To Crystalline Water
We see albino trees above the water fall,
the ruptured rainbow at its base.
Moistened by mist we climb the precipitous wall;
our slow march does not falter nor alter
insomuch as nearly a grace
is inclined toward such high times;
for vestal love destiny binds
brisk-eye visitors to crystalline water.
We won't allow the multi-coloured arc to fade
the moment the rose sun descends
into the spruce-studded dunes & bank's colonnade
of birches. Winter's dark cannot excise
our summer scene that never ends.
Our ears will not hear the roaring
river subside. Sea gulls soaring
through the milk-and-mist in our inner eyes.
Rose Auslander's six word memoir is "Mathematician's daughter -- has trouble counting." She is Poetry Editor of Folded Word Press, and stays away from math. Her great, great uncle, Joseph Auslander, was the first Poet Laureate of the United States, and she hopes to make him proud, wherever he may be.
It occurred to me that
perhaps I should
visit some stranger's
table and be
that perhaps we
should all
visit each others'
tables and all be
Then it occurred to me
that perhaps I'd
enjoyed too many
glasses of
Passover wine.
Wandering Jew
All down this small road
little houses
stare at me,
tight-lipped mouths
in words
not so
We've just moved
third house from
the corner, but
that's not
where they
Paul Jeffcutt was born in a hamlet near the border between England and Wales; after travelling widely he's settled in Northern Ireland beside the Mountains of Mourne. Paul's poems have appeared in poetry journals across Europe, Australia and the USA: his work has also regularly featured in anthologies from established poetry presses. He is a longstanding member of the Writer's Group at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. Paul's first collection of poetry will be published by Lagan Press later this year.
Dad's Bonfire
Every weekend he attends
to the sacrifice:
sticks, newspapers, leaves and weeds
hauled to the site.
Torn elbow above smudged knee,
wellyboot stirruped on garden fork,
he drags on a Players,
strides to the heap
and flicks a match.
She peers out and sighs.
He spits in his palm, grasps the haft
and forks debris to the pyre:
first a frown, then a lip
smoulders and cackles into flame -
at last, she's ablaze.
No, Nay, Never ... No more
So farewell then, Comrade P,
82 years puffing your own cigar
through legendary three-hour tirades
in olive-green combat fatigues -
smiting the foes of revolution
who'd replaced all serpents with sodomy,
from Sierra Antrim to the Bay of Swine.
You bestrode a provincial paradise
with dodgy doctorate and zealous book,
declaiming the fourth of never,
your wallies* whistling up a mighty wind -
until that pact with Mammon and the cloven ones.
Beatified in fedora and Buick sedan
you've retrenched to the garden.
*wallies - dentures (Scots slang)
Swimming Lessons
A sun-hewn Saturday,
the lido at Stratford Park:
Dad, away at the deep-end,
dives and disappears.
Rob and I scour the pool -
kids splash, the water shines.
He's gliding across the bottom like a great fish
to touch the tiles below our feet,
surfacing to our shrieks.
Again we chorus. He grins.
Droplets scudding from head and arms
he strides to the rungs and flops beside Mum,
deliberately beached and taking no notice
Horse, Dog, Donkey, Cat,
I'm listing animals that swim.
Cats can't swim shouts Rob. We squabble.
To settle the matter I collect Pinky
and we stride up the lane to the bridge:
claws over the parapet, she tumbles
then twists to hit the canal paws first.
She's under, the ripples spread;
could Rob be right?
A bedraggled head bobs, she paddles to the bank.
Triumphant I turn towards him
but he's already trotting to tell Mum.
Tired of chucking sticks,
we sit on the canal bank beside the house
dipping our wellies into the dark water.
Rob splashes me, then me him:
soon we're kicking up a mighty froth.
At the height of the fun he slips from the bank
to dance on the water,
then his wellies fill.
I fling out my arm - he can't reach
and struggling, slides under.
I bash the kitchen window, yelling.
Mum leaps in and hauls him to the surface:
I told you, she screams, keep him away from the water.
We lay his quiet body on the towpath.
Rob coughs, then howls.
My animal of power appeared
on the day I returned to the mountain
(the inquest was to open nearby).
At the pass I limped from my car
and shuffled with a stick
to the start of the stony ascent
and halted.
My damaged leg throbbed
as I traced out the craggy ridge of Crib Goch;
serene, smiling to the lens,
you'd forged ahead on the climb.
I laid flowers on a boulder beside the path,
an insignificant blaze of yellow and red
amidst bleak millennia of glacial erosion
and mumbled words, caught in a wind
that speared my desolate core.
Unable to keep on
and join you - afraid to return:
I slump to the broken ground
and remain.
Swooping down from the mountain
the great dark bird heads for me:
arrowing near,
glossy-black overhead,
gliding effortless beyond.
The raven's throaty cry booms out from the pass -
I hear the call.
Bernice Lever, prize winning poet, is a retired college teacher, island living near Vancouver, Canada. "Generation" is her 9th poetry book. In her travels, she has read poems on 5 continents. Bernice Lever is active in many Canadian writing organizations and PEN International. A great grandmother, she enjoys listening to poetry and performing her own. She is blessed to live in a small town of creative folk in a mild rainforest climate. She prays for PEACE everywhere with food on every plate.


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