ON THE COVER Martyn Lucas IN THIS ISSUE MARTYN LUCAS MATTHEW HERBERT JENNIFIRE HILL JANELLE SEABOCK ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SUMNER L. FAIRFIELD Click here to Download or View PDF from OneDrive (designed to be viewed on…
When I started O Muse! in January 2021, the pandemic had shut everything down. My Crescent Music Services clients weren’t performing, so I wasn’t working. After months of no new projects, no income and no end…
Ice she stood there within her castle of many battlements gazing down upon us...... this silver goddess of the sea....... I relish the art of seeing, of being cognizant of the world around me and finding…
Family Reunion When trees gather for a family picture. Rekha’s Mermaids Use your imagination. What do you see right below the surface? Or, even deeper? Rising Shine The bees get to work early. Moonlit Dance Bemused…
A novel through sound Prelude It’s three-thirty in the morning and we’re far underground in one of the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean. A hole has been drilled down through the ocean floor and a…
from Lays of Melpomene, 1824 Lyre of my Love! for many a lonely hour Thou hast breathed music o’er my sinking mind And I have sought thee, when the world unkind Crushed my fond hopes, in…
Three months ago, the stream did flow, The lilies bloomed along the edge; And we were lingering to and fro,— Where none will track thee in this snow, Along the stream, beside the hedge. Ah! sweet,…
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ON THE COVER Alfonso “Pompo” Bresciani IN THIS ISSUE •Pompo Bresciani •Daniel S. Sorine : Robin Williams •Tracy Conway •Tom Cox & Will Twynham •Fiona Almeleh •Blue Alchemy : Cyanotypes •Barbara Lane Gauley •Tara Shannon :…
A.I.-generated art [gallery columns="1" size="medium" ids="1831,1830,1829,1828,1827,1826,1824,1825,1823,1822,1821,1820,1832"] Pompo Bresciani is a stills photographer for feature film and television productions, including for AMC (TV Network), Hulu and ICG. He has worked on Swamp People, Leverage, and, most recently,…
I have long followed Pompo on Facebook. I enjoy seeing his photos from on set and behind the scenes of movies and TV shows, and his classic images of New Orleans and Louisiana. So when he…
“I close my mouth and speak to you in 100 silent ways.” — Rumi Spoken language is only one of many ways humans communicate with each other. The human body has always been used to tell…
Villager A novel by Tom Cox It’s a heavy day, and it hangs all over me. I’m deep in it. I’m so far in it, I’m technically invisible, unless you’re extremely near to me, and very…
tarashannonwrites.com I live in the middle of nowhere Ontario where my closest neighbors are buffalo. No, really! Surrounded by my family, both furry and non-furry :) I live out my days testing recipes and trying…
Memento Mori Mausoleums www.Mementomorimausoleums.com Tracy Conway worked as a stage hand and roadie until the pandemic hit. She reinvented herself making mausoleums, urns, planchettes and other tokens. Tracy L. Conway is a classically trained woodworker, a…