by Frederick Smith Single story homes, Bright orange-red trees of autumn American dream Lump growing larger Waiting in the car outside I am so afraid Electronic Light Images of you and I Passion without touch Five minutes more now, Brown leaves and peaceful feelings Time passes quickly Gold Penny Cadillac Good morning, nice to see you Chance brings diversion Black Ink on paper Thoughts exploding from my mind Still time moves on List in my pocket Finishing a cigarette Still afraid to know Time to [...]

Designers Against AIDS The First Decade Ludion Publishers Let’s skip to page 118, the start of Ninette Murk’s narrative about how Designers against AIDS (DAA) [A&U, July 2009], the nonprofit she founded, evolved over these, its first ten years. Murk, a fashion journalist based in Antwerp, was attending a Paris fashion show with her friend and colleague, Peter Verhelst, a stylist, in 1993. When Peter was harassed for toting in his own folding chair to the back section, where standing marked the difference from those [...]

Poetry by Patricia McFarland When the first one came, I knew there would be more. Some looking at the ground, some with plaintive eyes. Some couldn’t ask, but when I took their hands They felt the baby move and were so close to life. Gifts and gladiolas, baby shower laughter. A celebration of life. Most were young, some beautiful, some funny, some kind. Not the artists, not the famous, but the boys Foucault killed. Some went home. Some stayed. And one went off the roof. [...]

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