SYNDIC No. 40
International Edition
June 2021
Compiled/Published by LeRoy Chatfield
Table of Contents
Letter from the Publisher
Opening Song ~ “Have I Told You Lately” ~ Sarah Taylor Cook
Poem ~ “Then You Kissed Me” ~ Raquel Lanseros
Poem ~ “The Burden of Love” ~ Ion Deaconescu
Poem ~ “My Tongue Licks” ~ Yesim Agaoglu
Poem ~ “A Tree and a Bird” ~ Gueorgui Konstantinov
Poem ~ ” Dream Without Poison” ~ Dante Maffia
Poem ~ “A Stone Thrown Away” ~ Attila Balazs
Poem ~ “End” ~ Laura Garavaglia
Poem ~ “The Word That Crossed Silence” ~ Jeton Kelmendi
Poem ~ “Gilead” ~ Sandor Halmosi
Poem ~ “To Go Ahead” ~ Danuta Bartosz
Poem ~ “The Cold Air Barbed by Wind ~ Emmanuel Merle
Poem ~ “The House” ~ Carlos Ramos
Collage ~ “Light Twisted into Flesh” ~ Bill Wolak
Poem ~ “Oral Tradition” ~ Raquel Lanseros
Poem ~ “The Lost City” ~ Carlos Ramos
Poem ~ “The Violence of the World” ~ Emmanuel Merle
Poem ~ “The Light of the Lighthouse” ~ Danuta Bartosz
Poem ~ “She Didn’t Have a Name” ~ Sandor Halmosi
Poem ~ “Under the Shade of Memory” ~ Jeton Kelmendi
Poem ~ “Poetry” ~ Laura Garavaglia
Poem ~ “Puzzle” ~ Atilla Balazs
Poem ~ “Answer To Nazim Hikmet” ~ Dante Maffia
Poem ~ “Shadows” ~ Gueorgui Konstantinov
Poem ~ “Metamorphosis” ~ Yesim Agaoglu
Poem ~ “So Much Searching” ~ Ion Deaconescu
Collage ~ “Where Your Lips Arrived First” ~ Bill Wolak
Song ~ ” Vengo a ofrecer mi corazon” ~ Sarah Taylor Cook
Poem ~ “Antimanifesto” ~ Stanley H. Barkan
Personal Narrative ~ “Thing On My Chest” ~ Roger Netzer
Personal Narrative ~ “Holy Cards, Hell and High Water” ~ Catherine Sevenau
Poem ~ “Bite the Hand” ~ Charles Rammelcamp
Story ~ “The True Story of Noah’s Ark” ~ Tony Dawson
Personal Narrative ~ “The Poetry Reading” ~ Dileep Jhaveri
Collage ~ “The Smile of Arousal” ~ Bill Wolak
Poem ~ “Cape Flattery” ~ Jennifer Lagier
Narration ~ “Childhood Literacy’ ~ Nitin Jagdish
Poem “Visiting Me in the Museum” ~ Britta Kollberg
Poem ~ “The Enchanted Garden” ~ Lidia Chiarelli
Narration ~ ” Zane Grey and Nancy Drew” ~ Catherine Sevenau
Poem ~ “Hellman Remembers the Deli” ~ Charles Rammelkamp
Acrylic Artwork ~ Four Paintings ~ Micheline Hossain
Two Poems ~ “Freedom” & London Beat” ~ Anna Maria Mickiewicz
Poem ~ “Amnesia” ~ Dileep Jhaveri
Memoir Story ~ “Robert Kennedy and Cesar’s Fast” ~ Gerardo Vazquez
Three Poems ~ “Keening in Writing” & “Proposal” & “Nonsense” ~ Clarinda Harriss
Lyrical Prose ~ “How I Quit Story and Started Telling” ~ Britta R. Kollberg
Poem ~ “Language I Knew in Another Life” ~ Jennifer Lagier
Poem ~ “I Am Waiting . . .” ~ Tony Dawson
Personal Narrative ~ “Flying With the Bee Queen” ~ Dov Rose
Two Poems ~ “Reflection” & “Being Autumn” ~ Chris Giovacchini
Two Poems ~ “The Beggar Girl” & The Misunderstanding” ~ Asha Viswas
Collage ~ “That Dread You Can Never Escape” ~ Bill Wolak
Closing Song ~ “La Paloma” ~ Sarah Taylor Cook