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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Jeff Costen

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Laura Robinson

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Srdjan Vucetic
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Mary Rykov

Mary H. Rykov is a Toronto-based music therapist and academic editor who has written and reviewed for such as The Arts in Psychotherapy, Journal of Palliative Care and the Journal of Health Psychology. Her poems have been published in Carousel, Misunderstandings Magazine and Jones Avenue, and anthologized in Close to Quitting Time: An Anthology Depicting the Various Facets of Work (Ascent Aspirations, 2011) and The Art of Poetic Inquiry (Backalong Books, 2012). She searches for a publisher for her first poetry collection, Dear Mr. Rilke and Other Poems.

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Mary Rykov

Apple Cake Variations on a Palmerston Avenue Theme

December 2013
  I slice six tart Northern Spy apples into an oiled 8×8 inch bake pan then sprinkle them with sugar dark with cinnamon.   Yes, Ma I wash the apples well but I don’t peel away vitamins and fibre in long unbroken spirals nor do I iron cotton bed sheets while watching old television movies on Sunday…

Tosca

July–August 2013
  We were hoping you might think things through, try to get over it.   No matter your beloved Cavaradossi lies executed at your feet,   Liberty is in the air, Art will prevail and you, luscious diva, can love again.   Floria, stop! Let fly your faith to unfetter hope. Just this time, please —…