Stone Soup Magazine
— A meditation on water transforms from stillness to boiling, from possibility to necessity, as the speaker makes soup from nothing but water itself.
— A brief meditation on the paradox of 'now' — how the present moment of writing becomes the past by the time of reading.
— A meditation on time as both enemy and friend, resolving to embrace each day's activities rather than mourn its passing.
— A child watches their old house disappear through the car window as the family drives away to a new home, capturing the moment of leaving.
— Goodbye, Earth: rising rising I am rising above the grass, and falling toward the moon.
— A concrete poem creates stars from periods across the page, ending with 'A memory of Joy' as the final constellation in a starless night.
— A five-year-old Russian speaker faces her first day of kindergarten without knowing English, finds connection through a Japanese classmate who shares her language barrier.
— A child captures autumn's arrival through sound patterns, describing wool sweaters, breezy sneezes, chattering trees, and red leaves flooding streets like a stream.