Ricordi

 

 

Porte D'entrée

 

Goulash!

 

Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev

 

Jeff Bagato

 

Peter Baltensperger

 

Ambrose Bierce

 

Adam Henry Carrière

 

Charles G. Chettiar

 

Laura Eppinger

 

Kristin Fouquet

 

Maksim Gorky

 

Ron Larson

(below)

 

Eric Luthi

 

Ken Poyner

 

Gretchen Van Lente

 

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

 

 

♥  ♠  ♦  ♣

 

 

Ron Larson

The New Land

Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft

 

When the bleak days were hard upon him,

He would experience in his dreams

A life of openness and freedom—

An existence with beautiful scenes.

 

Gone was constant sameness and grayness,

Replaced with fragrant flowers and trees.

He now had vitality and wellness.

Yet, there was a door without a key.

 

Each night, he sought to enter this beyond.

At last, he had the key to access the door.

But before it could be used, it was dawn,

So he decided he would stint no more.

 

He increased his opium dosage.

Soon the wall’s door was opened by him.

A white landscape greeted his visage.

He had entered the land of oblivion.