Trashing Me You gallivant along the dock, one hand pocketed in saggy jeans, the other on taut lips where you drag the last of a Marlboro. I watch you toss the butt in the river, grab your iPhone- – noted: rugged OTTERbox, camo cover- – squinty eyes focused on notifications. I try to reach your attention, beg for some respect but my lapping waves only stir up debris […]
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Gerald Stanek | Trust
I have seen them, in a fashion they are similar to us, but different their bodies, their eyes, the way they move huge, powerful — I understand, now these rumors that they are gods I remain skeptical sometimes it strikes me, though not divine they are master teachers, gurus I observe them carefully as they carry on commanding tremendous forces with such ease I seek to emulate what I […]
Pattiann Rogers | Being accomplished
Balancing on her haunches, the mouse can accomplish Certain things with her hands. She can pull the hull From a barley seed in paperlike pieces the size of threads. She can turn and turn a crumb to create smaller motes The size of her mouth. She can burrow in sand and grasp One single crystal grain in both of her hands. A quarter of a dried pea can fill her […]
Paul R. Davis | Scream the Beloved World
Open your mouth and scream! Scream for the warmth of the sun, scream for the oceans’ water, scream for the air you breathe. Scream against all the futile wars, scream for the fallen young, scream against the profiteers. Scream against the ones who make the laws we cannot live by. Scream for the Founding Fathers twisting in their graves. Scream for Gaza, Scream for Sudan, Scream for the bleeding Balkans, […]
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