Front Page
In today’s news, the president pulled his army’s troops from a
middle eastern country because their soldiers were always high
and didn’t fight like a terrorist takeover was imminent. So … Read more
August 2021
Out of sight
What’s the difference between
eviction and our sad condition except
that the former gives birth to the latter?
Behind me – if I am still visible – is
the house … Read more
Fall of Kabul
640 bodies with only room for 150
Bodies crushed together, waiting, hoping, fearing.
Desperate
Bodies trampled in a stampede
Bodies punctured by gunshots
Bodies falling from the sky
Evacuated schools. … Read more
Redundancy
I am the aftermath
of the pandemic
I am the unwanted guest
who created havoc
changed people’s
life upside down
I took you out of
the comfort zone,
made you … Read more
Pyrophytes
“Pyrophyte: Any plant that is resistant to fire,
or that needs fire to propagate.”—Wiktionary
This morning I’m breathing smoke
from forest fires two thousand miles away
and the people who … Read more
Humane Killings
For Howard Debs
Wire Cutter Magazine gives the best advice
About how to kill black ants that have invaded
Your home. And though ants aren’t as bad as lice,
they … Read more
Bad Policing
Should we still identify them as the police?
Patrol the streets for “harmful” black flesh
Bullets and tasers they quickly release
On melanin ones, they chase or catch
Do they … Read more
Dispatch from the West
It’s fire time again.
So far so good.
Fog in the mornings
Erases the trees.
Shafts of sunlight
Break up the mist,
All of it, … Read more
Love Note of the Fish
Their teeth are like ours as they jump through the air
invasive but no one cared about Asian carp brought here
to tame plants, algae, snails.
Immaculate, their dark skins … Read more
#BringDannyHome
for Journalist Danny Fenster
There is a myth in Ovid’s Metamorphosis
that is hard to shake. Cassandra bound to rocks
at sea, the seer silenced by Apollo, truth bound
by … Read more
Goodbye Disney World
I won’t be visiting Florida soon,
not even taking my kids to Disney World
Too conservative for my tastes
A governor who breaks hospital records
for the most covid positivity … Read more
The Real Olympic Heroes
Awaiting the torch, the flame
that ignites and invites
the world of sport to gather,
to meet and compete
in a spirit of revered competition,
respect, and acceptance.
Honorable countries … Read more