The Naked Flame

Winter 2023

Five Poems

Three Stories

“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos

Poems read aloud, beautifully

What Hath Gable Got?

“Rhett Butler” romances Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s comic masterpiece It Happened One Night

Footwork

“We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Mariah Reading

The Eco-Artist

Roughing It

Ted Conover on life off-grid

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

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