Category: War & Politics
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The Leaping Stone
It’s not winning you crave, but losing you fear It’s not the destination, but the journey A satiated stone cannot move on its own It must wait to be broken Gathered up in green and consumed To run forests, swim rivers or fly In the stochasticity of brokenness Resides your seeking soul Leap from your…
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water’s edge
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”He builds his water-world And lives in splintered Trees with bark unfurled.” from the poem, ‘Castor Canadensis’ from the chapbook, ‘Earth Gospel’ 2019 by Tamara Miles ======================================== Let’s you and I walk a water’s edge and talk of gnawed tree trunks pointing at the sky of tree corpses pulled through nettles and vines of water…
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The Jabbering of a California Ground Squirrel’ or ‘Saving Devin from himself’
Fearing every shadow that drifts over grass fearing the blue sky above a green canopy he jabbers that talons hide in silence and that every bird could be a raptor As a red hawk feasts on his brothers, he believes his salvation lies in blood sacrifice to an apparition that waits in a barren tree…
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A boy and National Geographic magazine
Picture of a half-naked woman heavy basket on her head breasts pendulous smooth as ripe fruit You don’t recall being overcome with lust But you remember her arms and wide hips under flowered skirt Admired how strong she must be to walk so far in a hot sun You didn’t know one woman in your…
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Three Haiku Wrapped in Medusa’s Curls
imagine a she walking alone cool of moon narcissistic he imagine a she her beauty accepts no guilt avenges Medusa imagine a she who walks alone brunet night the fear of rape dead 11-5-19
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A Pleasant Thursday Afternoon Reverie
Wouldn’t it be nice if the coming storm began at the west edge of our yard and blew all the tired green leaves it strips from our trees out our yard and into the park for the city to gather and discard and wouldn’t it be nice if Prima Donald resigned and moved to Russia…
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Sermon of squirrels
Yesterday all the rats in fur coats jumped down from the trees sang hosanna and fled our yard Salivating in search of a miracle they stopped at Benedict College to attend the Traveling Nut Salvation Show 10-26-19
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For the Poet, Andrea Gibson
Cultural climate change ice bergs of hate set adrift melt in warmer seas I journey to Charleston holy city filled with churches to listen to a famous poet poet sells out venues markets herself a queer poet because America is tired of hate 10-18-19
