Current Issue About Editorial Note Archives Submitting Links		Alex Stolis Word Problem 2. It takes 4 men 6 hours to repair a road. How long will it take 7 men     to do the job if they work at the same rate? The dead are very patient. They know even beauty has to go someplace to die. We write them, praying for a reprieve from the perennial burning and ache of unknowing. We write and hope and dress the kids for school. We wait, go to work, plan a next vacation to Cinque Terra, Portugal or East Africa. We dig earth build fires. We write, we wait, we fall in and then out of love. We remember when others have forgotten. We flicker with expectation as light fades, as leaves turn green to yellow and still, the dead remain. Next Poem
		All materials on this site are © 2014. No materials may be copied, reposted, or reused without written consent of their creator(s).