Browsing Category Poetry

  • In Sickness and Health 0

    I’m Trying to be a Person

    I’m Trying to be a Person on whom nothing is lost. I have ruined several custards with scalding impatience.             Not a good ...

    On March 31, 2020 / By
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    The Rise of Negation

    Your memories like cells...these imperfect combinations ...

    On March 31, 2020 / By
  • In Sickness and Health 0

    Widow

    God, You carry this device in my chest called   love &  I – a child of  infertility – choose you to  sterilize  the left testicle  of  intimacy  ...

    On March 31, 2020 / By
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    A Declaration: Forbidding Mourning

    This is a time we’d like to forget a virulent inflection that pains and yet cannot last unless we let it, This is the way it flows, a ...

    On June 24, 2019 / By
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    Are You a Self-Identified Black Woman?

      Are you eligible to partake in academia? Question your acceptance letter? Not writing the other perspective? Missing the point of the assignment? Do you get Tarantino’s postmodern ...

    On May 19, 2019 / By
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    Horizon

    A giant copper moon flares on the lake in the early dark, and on the car radio, talk. Talk trying to chew despair. Talk about fear to hide ...

    On May 12, 2019 / By
  • Poetry 1

    A Can of Pinto Beans

      Robbie Gamble: For the past several summers I have spent time on the Arizona/Mexico border, working with an organization that provides medical and material aid to migrants ...

    On April 8, 2019 / By
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    An Odyssey

    Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...

    On February 7, 2019 / By
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    1-800-HOT-CHAT

    It’s such a dumb thing small thing. Right? I’m on the phone faking this guy out. Maybe some regular. He can’t know that I pick toe jam out ...

    On February 5, 2019 / By
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    Henry and Ralph

    To open separate window, click button on upper right of display   Image: “Beauty of Twilight ” by Eddi van W. , licensed under CC 2.0 ...

    On January 12, 2019 / By
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    Aiding and Abetting

    I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone . . .                –DJT, 2016 you want to replicate a Glock so you let your ...

    On December 16, 2018 / By
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    Civilization

                           October 2017 as in Boston as what it looks like when you leave it taking off your ...

    On December 16, 2018 / By