is a former psychology researcher/writer/editor/ lecturer who has turned to writing short stories and poetry. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in numerous anthologies, journals, and internet magazines including The Tule Review, Phoebe, Visions International, Manzanita Quarterly, Midwest Poetry Review, Nanny Fanny, mélange journal, FZQ. She co-edited River Voices: Poets of Butte, Shasta, Tehama and Trinity Counties, California. Her latest chapbook is Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer and she recently edited Labyrinth: Poems & Prose. She lives on a creek in rural northern California, USA, with her husband and two cats. |
a journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott Contributors are invited to address the question: What is the writer's responsibility to self & society? |
Aftermath by Patricia Wellingham-Jones 1. ORANGE RIBBONS: September 12, 2001 Kids in the Dunsmuir High School cafeteria spend lunch hour, home room time with scissors, tiny gold pins and yards of narrow orange satin ribbon. When the simple loops pile up like tangerines in a tropical marketplace they take handfuls, stuff pockets, fill a pretty basket, head into town. Before the sun sinks behind cedars and hemlocks bow their drooping heads and the September horror ends its second day, every person in the small mountain town-- just-born infant to war-torn graybeard-- wears the symbol. After orange flames burst through those twin towers and blasted thousands of lives apart, the orange ribbons tie a town together. 2. RED, WHITE AND BLUE Every Main Street in America flaunts flags this week in September, 2001-- double flagpoles, on arches, porches, even tricolor ribbons wave. Car antennas sport Old Glory, kids' helmets wave the flag, and houses across the land are draped with bunting. Fruitless search for my own banner showed not a flag left for sale so I express sympathy, pride in my country, hope for the future in my clothes-- red shirt over blue jeans under white bear earrings -- as we all show in our small ways that we care. c2001 Patricia Wellingham-Jones |
a journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott Contributors are invited to address the question: What is the writer's responsibility to self & society? |
is a former psychology researcher/writer/editor/ lecturer who has turned to writing short stories and poetry. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in numerous anthologies, journals, and internet magazines including The Tule Review, Phoebe, Visions International, Manzanita Quarterly, Midwest Poetry Review, Nanny Fanny, mélange journal, FZQ. She co-edited River Voices: Poets of Butte, Shasta, Tehama and Trinity Counties, California. Her latest chapbook is Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer and she recently edited Labyrinth: Poems & Prose. She lives on a creek in rural northern California, USA, with her husband and two cats. |
