The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday August 12th, 2023
A glimpse of stocking by Abigail George
The photograph is of my mother. In it she looks like someone else. Perhaps someone else’s mother. Our relationship is fraught with difficulties. I’m a fat cutout or rather the curator of fat cutouts. Dark water inside of my head. I can hear her voice. She is calling me. Yes, I am coming. She’s my sun. A slow word. An open and shut release. She’s a mountain covered with light-green foliage. Her hair is cut in the style younger women wore in ‘those’ days.
The expression on her face is carefree. She is not burdened yet with a brilliant, manic depressive husband, and three spoilt but talented children. She is the storage space where I keep all my childhood treasure. I search for the city language of chronic illness. Find it there, the miracle, staring back at me on the page. My mother is beautiful even though she is the origin of winter to me. She’s taste, and smell, sight, and sound. My mother is elegant. I feel when I look at that picture, hold the photograph in my hands that I can have a coffee with the girl that my mother is. Perhaps we can even go for lunch. Share a slice of decadent, mouthwatering cheesecake. That’s what girls do. They go out together, and talk, and talk. She will tell me how she met my gentle, and wise father. She will tell me their love story in so many words.
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Creed #poem by David Sparenberg
“There is no blood
on my hands;
no blood-lust in my heart.
Hatred does not grow
in orchard of my soul.”
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Ghostin’ #70 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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