Michelle Bitting: Reporting Back
Those free-floating cabezas—
ancient, adrift
on song-strung shores
are always ready to party.
Octavio Paz: Motion
If you are the basket of oranges
I am the knife of the sun
Angele Ellis: Midnight in the Backyard of Lust and Longing
In her new poetry collection, Alexis Rhone Fancher Boldly Explores the Landscape of Sensuality
Video: John O’Donohue | Beanacht
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.
Claude McKay: December, 1919
‘Tis ten years since you died, mother,
Just ten dark years of pain,
And oh, I only wish that I
Could weep just once again.
Greg Lobas: Her Animal Self (corrected version)
hit the brakes so hard it almost sent her back in time. A minute would do. Even a few seconds, just before the van rocketed over the rise, launched into … Continue reading
Andrea Mazzarino: The Army We Don’t See
In 2019, there were 50% more contractors than troops in the U.S. Central Command region that includes Afghanistan, Iraq, and 18 other countries in the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia.