by Robin Barber | Oct 1, 2024 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Set Loose by the Mouth that Sings Like That by Aiyana Masla Surely you know the feelingtoday, & open the door,step out to the sunlight in your eyesyour hair uncombed, everything thick,the chair damp from last night’s rainyour feet...
by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine The Joy of the Dogs by Barbara Rouillard Auntie Shirley, my Uncle David’s wife, was a pediatric nurse from her twenties until the late1990s when she retired. Once she told me that she loved to watch healthy children at play, inparks...
by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine The Braid by Barbara Rouillard I had loved my job as a special education public school teacher with a long, fulfilling careerthat lasted for more than three decades. I felt I had had a life well-lived, but I was ready toretire those...
by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Air by Barbara Rouillard “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only.I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”Margaret Atwood, Variation on the Word Sleep My mother rings a small, brass bell when she...
by Robin Barber | Nov 16, 2023 | Pineapple Zine
From the Pineapple Literary 'Zine Stacks of Fine Woodworking Magazines (Contemplating Eventual Downsizing) by Donald Wheelock My first thoughts of them aren’t with the craftbut with the atmosphere, with starting work:the optimism of the summer sun,the early morning...
