Hermitage ~ Joseph Fasano It’s true there were times when it was too much and I slipped off in the first light or its last hour and drove up through the crooked way of the valley and swam out to those ruins on an island. Blackbirds were the only music in the spruces, and the […]
On Europa and Ripe Peaches ~ Marsha S. What a burning, broken universe— incalculable, devastating, things we can’t imagine. We attach names familiar to us Titan, Europa, Calypso but they are still mighty and immeasurable, terrifying— but don’t think of all that. It’s too big. It’s too sad. Think of this: It’s sublime and impossible […]
Lessons from My Grandmother, #12 ~ Salma Deera they keep calling you a breeze because they’re frightened of what you might do when you discover you are a hurricane.
Everything is Going to Be All Right ~ Derek Mahon How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the […]
In honor of our First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly and to petition the government for the redress of grievances, I present this powerful, and still timely, poem. Happy Independence Day, America. Enjoy the barbecue and fireworks today; tomorrow, resistance resumes. Secondary Boycott Ode ~ Sharon Olds I had never seen anything like it. I […]
