Browsing Category Poetry

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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
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    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
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    After the President Calls Citizens ‘Sons of Bitches’

    As I watch the line of men drop to their knees, refusing to praise the God of country, the most jealous and vengeful God of all, I am ...

    On November 20, 2018 / By
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    Female Pattern Balding

    The pursuit of beauty comes to this. Selecting a wig color that will best match your eyebrows. Code gender as a form of hypertext. Insert any parenthetical equation. ...

    On June 3, 2018 / By
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    This Gesture

    Look what we have here: some books bought with a student’s savings, as if land purchased for a house that you might never build. Plato, Hegel, The Marxist ...

    On March 11, 2018 / By
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    Nil Nisi of the Dead

                           —variously attributed to Diogenes and Chilon 1. Nothing but good: that’s what I’ve always read. They never ...

    On February 11, 2018 / By