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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons The Ovi covers for Saturday January 6th, 2024
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THE FLYING MARINER by David Sparenberg
Odysseus, the sailor, flew high with birds and into the clouds. The polis dwellers of Ithaka thought the sea tested voyager’s aerial acrobatics proof of senility, if not signs of Dionysiac madness.
But the flying mariner had learned the art of weaving from his patient and faithful Penelope.
Little did the watchers on the ground recognize that the King, in returning to the mythopoeic playfulness of childhood, held a silver needle and ball of golden threat in his soul and in his hands. With these tools of ageless magic, the shaman Odysseus was once more sewing rift and wound, and stitching Heaven and Earth back together.
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The painted birds #poem by Abigail George
“I’m helpless. She knows this and tells me
to forget this place of weeping and change.
She’s an afternoon shadow. A crack in the
wall. A crack in the system. She doesn’t
believe in the |Holy Spirit. Once she was
a daughter. Now she is a lover. She’s the
opposite of me. She’s beautiful and caring”
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AntySaurus Prick #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday Wednesday 25th, 2023
When Good Refugees Turn Bad by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
When the first Russian forces began entering Ukrainian territory in February 2022, the instant reaction from Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia, was one of open commitment to Ukraine’s refugees. The relentless human trains heading westwards were initially embraced by Poles, whose history with Ukraine is, at best, tense and sketchy.
Across Europe, walls came down in dispensation for this new type of refugee, tolerated and tolerable by the populists and the border security types, all summed up by comments from the Bulgarian Prime ministerKiril Petkov, who declared the fleeing Ukrainians “intelligent” and “educated people”. They were certainly “Europeans” and were not like the “refugee wave we have been used to”, the sort packed with individuals with “unclear pasts [and] who could have been even terrorists.” For a time, governments could distract attention from brutal border policies directed against swarthier irregular arrivals.
The enlarged spirit of generosity was also aided by the perpetrator of the attack:the West’s habitual bugbear, and the number of notably eastern and central European states that had anxiety aplenty about Russian territorial ambitions. To date, estimates suggest that 7.9 million people have fled the war, with 4.7 million registered under the European Union’s temporary-protection directive.
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The Wall #prose by George Cassidy Payne
“I loved you, the way jewels are left unclaimed on the ocean floor. I loved you forevermore, and I knew all along that such a place does not exist. I loved you, the way a pike devours a frog when it is not watching, you know how fast they can get out of the way. I loved you night and day”
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Mika Toxica #46 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday November 27th, 2022
Three Monologues #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
“You’re misbehaving. You’re misbehaving, Emily. Go to your room. Write if you must. Your verses.”
“I’m humming. I’m singing. I’m happy. You should be happy for me. Seldom am I happy. All day long I have chores to do, the baking, then there is cooking, reading to Lavinia. Then there is our mother. That is a fulltime time occupation from the beginning of day, to the last possible moment at night, before the entire household retires. Who do you think sees to that? So that you can have your life, and father can be in Washington.”
“I am just tired, Emily. I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to talk about my wife. My mistress is of no concern of yours. Those are matters that no longer concern you.”
“How you hurt me, brother. How you anger me?”
“Next you’ll be telling me, sister, eccentric sister that you make my life possible. The life of my mistress, wife. My life as treasurer of Amherst College.”
“No, Emily. It is I that makes your life possible.”
“Austin, I don’t think that you understand.”
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Tribute to Keith Wilson (1927 – 2009) #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“His fingers tap the keys
one by one –
in the wake
words take form”
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Ephemera #75 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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