Sophie Cabot Black: As to Why We Will Not Stop (Making the Hats)
We have come to know the truth
As no longer true— the old ways do not work
Against the new.
Mosab Abu Toha: Shrapnel Looking for Laughter
Shrapnel flies in the dark,
looks for the family’s peals of
laughter hiding behind piles of disfigured
walls and bleeding picture frames.
Alfred Corn: Instagram posts of Dr. Ali Tahrawi (second gathering)
We are dying in the longest nightmare in the history of humanity, with the most disgusting and immoral generation in human existence, witnessing the most human abusing and destructive period.
Arlene Weiner: Ghazal
When parting or meeting we wish each other peace.
We show with every greeting that we are lovers of peace.
Abriel Louise Young: Calling on Friends Across the Veil to Help Us Change History
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? Have you succeeded in changing yourself to wine? If so, please report back.
Rebecca Senf: Photographer Louis Carlos Bernal memorialized the barrios at the US-Mexican border
Bernal invented a style of art photography while creating an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios.
Tony Gloeggler: October
He’s an ex girlfriend’s son
and I’ve known Jesse
since he was five. I decide
not to tell this woman he’s autistic
thinking she can figure it out
if she listens.
Amy Lowell: The Broken Fountain
All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Fall into the water.
And now in the moonlight they still fall,
But each leaf is fringed with silver.
Nidia Hernández: Río Turbio translated by Rowena Hill
I stopped in front of
the silence of all that distance
of my country being erased
Paul Christensen: Interpreting YouTube
YouTube is full of mini-documentaries on how other animals express love for one another, and remember the kindness paid to them by human beings after years of living in the wild.
David Kirby: Whatever Happened to Bobby Dunbar?
26 people
were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre,
among them a first grader whose father was later
confronted by a man who said it was all a hoax
Abby Zimet: Wearin’ Yesterday’s Misfortunes Like A Smile
He’s a poet he’s a picker he’s a prophet he’s a pusher
He’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned
He’s a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction
Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home
Adam Patric Miller: America’s Natural Born Son
Is his name really Colt Gray? The name sounds like fiction. Glancingly, I looked at pictures and a white woman’s face comes into my mind with the age 53. A … Continue reading
Adam Bittleston: September
Into the ripening
Of earth’s great gifts
The mists of autumn
Begin to be woven.
