Mayari Literature, Volume 2 Issue 1: Grounded
Our literary magazine’s first quarterly edition, Year Two. Firmly planted on solid ground, we still dream of touching the stars.
A Letter from our Guest Editor Laura Grevel
Dear Reader!
When the ground under our feet journeys past our souls, planting “home”, “faith”, “nests” and “Collective God-minds” on the mountains of tomorrow. When these words root, bud and bloom into trees and birds and time, telling storied-memories in the voices of deserts and shouting “We do exist!”, then will the Goddess Heart scream-struggle inside out and we will dig deep into our burrows sighing in the arms of our shadows. There we will dream-travel until the day we are cleansed as new stars. Spat into the sky and blinking. Blinking!
When you search the ground for grounding clues, search here, dear Reader! These Mayari writers provide starter kits.
You will find warning in the parable of Daswani’s “Dodo”; don’t stand still if you don’t want to become extinct. You will find heart-warning in Soy Avocado’s “grounded landing”: where tragedy landing on hard ground is not the answer sought.
You will find your own echo-history in Stormcrow’s migration story, “in the rains, the wind, the clouds, the wao”, bedding abundance with old salmon berries and wolves, spoken in a new-owled tongue. Stories!
You will find truth and belief in Williams-Brown’s strong faith, her spirit roots riding beacon, rocks, swords, and shields. You will find Corman-Roberts’ rainy night of revelation that opens an envelope to earthly struggle, that opens us, to others, begs us to keep learning loving in infinite looping.
You will find life experience: Pestonji’s roots haikuing soil growth; spreading to LKN’s planting the time to wonder at wandering to find homecoming. Wandering!
You will find nature serene: despite hurricane and flood, heat and drought. See Tezozomoc’s reveal of scorched-barren desert that thrums and drums with life and history, ancient and modern dancing together. In diversity! See Caur’s glowing Banyan tree, firm and free, though life itself twists and turns.
You will find Our Voices evolving. See Jones “realms of many voices” speaking storytelling through time-space-shattered-dreams and blue oranges peeling diamonds in the sky. See Tefft’s childhood walking out of old coats in search of sound-nests.
You will find remedies. Muller comfort-calms with burrowed warmth in shadow-sleep. Hoskins turns chores into baptism, cleansing memories of cold wars and opening Eyes-to-the-Sun. While West drops us into a raindrop of one leaf, till we turn tree.
You will find we are all immigrants in Waltz’s groundful compendium: the tools of grounding in the gifts and image of God, in experience, memory, grief, and the sound of soul’s longing. In equality!
You will find expressionistic extortionism “Where matter changes to / skin and black a gain” in Xanadu’s mystery of Munch’s Scream. You will, dear Reader!
You will find grounding in the air of these writers’ words. You will find ground. In the air.
Read on…
Laura Grevel From the Other Side of the Tongue
Table of Contents
Kaleiheana Stormcrow Ancestors
Anjetta (Anjie) Williams-Brown Grounded in Faith
Paul Corman-Roberts The Really Very Good Friday
Meher Pestonji Haiku
LKN Homecoming
Neil Daswani Dodo
Tezozomoc Indian Summer Stretch
Harppreet M. Caur Grounded Glow
Henry L. Jones STORYTELLERS
Marianne Tefft Voices
Pam Muller Groundhog
Jennifer (Soy Avocado) Leong grounded landing
Amy Hoskins I Am the Dishwasher
Susanne West DESCENT
Eike Waltz The Immigrant that never dies
Xanadu Marble Scream
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