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National Poetry Month April 23, 2020 Jacquelyn Shah LETTER FROM K ON A DRUNKEN RAFT Dear Charlie, I write to you from Flux, the sea of a sea- blue funk that flows through middle ages. I float like Quetzlcoatl on a raft of snakes and flaunt my malice and pique that rain on your […]
National Poetry Month April 22, 2020 Elaine Wilburt Nôtre Dame de Paris: Entr’acte As crimson rays melting to violet slip from bell tower to buttresses, a solo sax wails sobs laden with this dusk. Against a stone bridge, creamy and warm, echoes redouble like a round, fading layer on layer, harmonizing grief. […]
National Poetry Month April 21, 2020 Joanne Kennedy Frazer SANCTUARY The journeys are broadcast over and over into homes of the comfortable who feel summoned to witness families fleeing to illusory refuge. Trust in the crossing is framed in faces of the very young. Tiny mouths seek mothers’ milk, innocence drowns. […]
National Poetry Month April 20, 2020 Ann Howells Bigotry falls, a gentle snow upon young shoulders, persistent wind chime tinkling the ear. It turns off lamps, turns up heat, so subtle it goes unnoticed. It falls like crumbs from Mama’s apron, spills in ashes from Dad’s pipe. Like asbestos in the ceiling, lead in […]