An Eclectic Journal of the Arts
The Flickering The candle flame is not for always, its flickering is. A child, in our old, humble flat, I got scared to death when it went pitch dark, all of a sudden, because of a blackout. Quite a usual occurrence in those days. Therefore mom kept matches and a candle in a specific place […]
Spinozablue has recently added some poetry by Howie Good and Alessio Zanelli, the latter joining his fellow Italian, Gabriella Garofalo, from June. Continuing experiments with Krita brushes, most recently playing around with some of its filters as well. One, in particular, adds a nice brush effect to the whole. It’s called “brushify,” strangely enough. I’m […]
Rewind Things occur at nighttime, mostly, shutters down, no lamplight, quiet. Places never seen before and yet peculiar, people known so well like strangers, past and future upside down, mixed up, entangled. Crowds benumbed, as if remotely checked, surround, obstruct and choke me, sudden come to life as soon as I attempt to run away […]
Spinozablue welcomes new poetry from John Grey and Alessio Zanelli. Michael Gorra’s The Saddest Words (2021) is an intellectual griffin of sorts: a serious literary biography, a thoroughly researched history of an era, and a thought-provoking, fearless, and moral accounting of our past. Departing from most biographies of Faulkner, Gorra focuses primarily on how […]
Wish Like a branch the gale has rent from a tree and cast in the water down the river of disquietude my wish longs for the mouth the end of the run the flow into the sea of unmet desires wary of shoals and shores of piers and abutments asway in the current to the […]
SMILE You often seem to smile even when asleep, light wrinkles on your forehead, a barely audible hiss from your nose. Your smile, by night as by day, emanates not just from your lips and gaze, but also from your chin, cheeks and temples, from how your whole body lies on the bed or […]
Spinozablue welcomes in the month of October with new poetry from Alessio Zanelli, Kyle Hemmings and Joshua Bocher. * * * * * Hilary Sideris, one of our contributors, has a new book of poems out. It’s called Sweet Flag, and you can purchase it through Finishing Line Press. Congratulations, Hilary! […]
White Mulberries One Indian file resists the advance of pylons and smokestacks, right at the bottom of the hollow between the main embankments. Forsaken sentries captive at home, ashy relics of earth, air, water and fire. This land has forgotten that once it teemed with countless arrays. They know and strive to last till worms […]
We have some new poetry on tap from Sheema Kalbasi, Alessio Zanelli and Tony Jones. Sheema also tipped me off to a very good short film and hopes our readers will view the movie here. The filmmaker in question, Hossein Martin Fazeli, is also a poet. One I hope to publish here soon. __________ […]
The Shriek On the edge of her lip, like a car balanced on the brink of a precipice, the shriek has halted, swaying. Just one spasm, and all of her anger would gush down noisily, sweeping sighs and placid thoughts away. We could try to rescue those inside the shaky car before it plunges to […]