Works & Days Quarterly

To live on the border is to feel alive. It is to cross over and to be crossed over: to be both passive and active. It is to see and be seen: to observe with the invisibility of a hidden sentry and to be exposed like a trespasser in the searchlights. It is to be at once comfortable and uncomfortable: to be sure of oneself and to question everything all the time. To try to locate where the specific act of creativity occurs, one must navigate this peculiar territory.

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Constellation of Stars

by Neil and Mary Colmer

Recipes:

Southwest Flavors

by Ashley Suzan Beck
and Eric Wines

Baristas at the Starbucks who sell lattes

to indigent physicists who drive

taxis full of Dutch designers that live

in Old Town — "...variant in carmine vates" —

{Con't.}

Islands

by Emily Strauss

If an island is a place with sharp boundaries

a waterline with an edge between beginnings

and endings in its movement from sea to land

where exchanges occur

{Con't.}

I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

arr & perf by Ben Holmes & Patrick Farrell

Guide; Or, A Man in a White Linen Suit Speaks the Following

by Cara Marsh Sheffler

PART I: So it seems the least likely of stories starts in the most likely of places. However, I may have it backwards.

{Con't.}

~WITH~

Infinite Progress; Fantasies and Loops for Solo Violin

National Geographics by Lauren DiCioccio

The Blue Appaloosas

by Nels Hanson

Sometimes at night when I wake I watch Emma calmly sleeping, her black, lovely Indian hair across her cheek and the white antler pendant between her breasts. I study her pretty, untroubled face, her soft lips and closed lids that are still, her shapely hands she holds palm to palm.

{Con't.}

Continental Drift

by Kit Warren

Disappeared in the Desert

by Mossy Pine

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Ben Franklin (disambiguation)

by Joey Dean Hale

A noted polymath, Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman, author, oilfield pumper, printer, politician, postmaster, musician, satirist, diplomat, scientist, inventor, farmer, and also my neighbor. I studied him in depth at school then later he'd stop by our house to stash his beer.

{Con't.}

Distressed Brooklyn 2012, concept 1

by Stefan Hengst

Fridlyst

by Andi Ekstrom