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All Our Pretty Words, a Poem by RC deWinter
your truth may not be mine nor mine yours in fact, they may be diametrically opposed the only unarguable truths in a digital world those...
RC deWinter
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Listening to Writers, a Poem by David Forrest
A writer visited my school. No cape or pipe but you could tell. I still have the notes, dictated word for word: If you want to write then...
David Forrest
Apr 15, 20232 min read
Echoes & Walls, a Poem by David Forrest
Saturday. I ask How are things in Damascus and you smile and say Fine and tell me news of your brother and sister and it’s the same news...
David Forrest
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Pandemic Spring and Then What? a Poem by Elaine Zimmerman
The groundhog does not see his shadow today but I give you mine for the number of springs we missed together. Buds will open in this...
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Mar 31, 20232 min read
Voyage, a Poem by P. Matile
The neurotic phrasing of the African dreamers, Flies up to the sky And suddenly intertwines, Like the flight of swallows, Watching from...
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Mar 24, 20231 min read
Say Her Name, Part I, a Poem by Susan Wenzel
They say they can’t say her name because they can’t prove if she was murdered on tribal land or not. They say they can’t say her name...
Susan Wenzel
Mar 10, 20231 min read
And It Was Good, a Poem by Marjorie Maddox
Not the green-grey sludge snaking to the river’s edge. Not the sun’s overdone orb baking the snake to a dry bed of dust. Not the hands of...
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Feb 24, 20231 min read
Positionality/Metacognition/Rhetoric, a Poem by Susan Wenzel
(Dianna Good Sky and Rosalie Fish mentioned with permission) Who am I, I asked myself, to write about something I know nothing about? Who...
Susan Wenzel
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Dill, a Poem by Erin Covey-Smith
It is hot, hotter than it was ever meant to be. The air chewable, our thoughts limp as the beanstalks in the garden. Night a stultifying...
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Feb 3, 20231 min read
Escape from Trash Life, Staten Island 1998, a Poem by Tanya Tuzeo
i woke with the sun that summer / reeking dump familiar with its liquefying salty ozone and human marzipan / and rollerbladed to the...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
Loss of Power, a Poem by Gary Beck
In the land of broken dreams conflicting forces conspire to thoroughly divide us into clashing groups, irreconcilable politicians,...
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Jan 13, 20231 min read
Unwritten Verses, a Poem by Ramzi Albert Rihani
The ink is dry The poet hasn’t finished his poem He repeats the unwritten verses Like a mirage in a desert Memory reigns Scrambled...
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Jan 6, 20231 min read
Dance of the Cafeteros, a Poem by Russell Willis
Far above the level of the sea an Axis of Coffee straddles the mountains of Columbia For the cafeteros there is but one centuries-old...
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Dec 16, 20221 min read
Magnolia and Cherry, a Poem by Marjorie Maddox
-Spring 2021 Buds burnt by cold, they open anyway, both pink and blackened, facing the spring. Courage, not innocence: magnolia and...
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Dec 9, 20221 min read
There's a Wildfire in Siberia, a Poem by Tanya Tuzeo
garbage belches out tinsel dinnerware in celebration of yet another dinner Doordashed. since leftovers are not enough for tomorrow’s...
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Dec 2, 20221 min read
Life and Liberty in America 2022 AD, a Poem by Melissa Brander
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. But there is nothing right or seemly that those we have asked to die are doctors. teachers....
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Nov 25, 20221 min read
Block, a Poem by Erin Covey-Smith
The blank slate where I want to write sorrow for the black bodies taken, where I want to write worry for the invisible vector tornadoeing...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
Walker, a Poem by Gary Beck
The doctor keeps telling me: ‘Go out. Get some fresh air. Talk to people.' I tried to tell him I have no friends, they’re all dead. He...
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Nov 11, 20221 min read
Sitting in Darkness, a Poem by Russell Willis
If you are sitting in darkness open your eyes turn around to see if there’s light behind you or above or below or to the side not that...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
The Lost House, a Poem by Farideh Shabanfar
Sister is pleading with her friend; Send me a picture of our house Our old house that we abandoned Without a farewell, with hope to...
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Oct 14, 20221 min read
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