The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday 29th, 2023
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.
Continue reading HERE!
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”
Continue reading HERE
AntySaurus Prick #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
For more AntySaurus Prick HERE!
For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
Ovi magazine
We cover every issue!
