Jul 12
A City’s Death By Fire by Derek Walcott After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky,I wrote the tale by tallow of a city’s death by fire;Under a candle’s eye, that smoked in tears, IWanted to tell, in more than wax, of faiths that were snapped like wire.All day I walked abroad …
Jul 11
Extraction, an excerpt by Tanaya Winder Can we un-suicide, un-pipeline,un-disappear our dear ones? There is no wordfor undo but many ways to say return.We never get to go back to beforeour fathers began evaporatingand our mothers started flooding themselvesinto unglobable rivers because their motherswere taken long ago. And, we are still searchingdragging rivers red until …
Jul 10
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me by Richard Blanco {for the D.A.C.A DREAMers and all our nation’s immigrants} . . . my veins don’t end in mebut in the unanimous bloodof those who struggle for life . . . . . . mis venas no terminan en mísino en la sange unánimede los …
Jul 09
We Are Remarkably Loud Not Masked by Juan Felipe Herrera young Jesse Washington — even though you on the wooden stickcross of fire bitten charred cut & burned 5 minute juryApril 15, 1916 Waco, Texas shackled & dragged — lynched You live on Trayvon Martin face downred juice on the lawn clutching candy rushing …
Jul 08
Another Heaven by Mai Der Vang I am but atoms Of old passengers Bereaved to my cloistered bones. This rotation is my recipe,The telling of every edition As a landscape on slow windshields.The body no longer Baskets fatigue,No envelopes with oxygen left to cure. When funeral recitesThe supper gardens of my forefathers,Cross-stitch from …
