Monthly Archives: September 2011

As the Potatoes Speak, They Observe: Poetry, Potatoes & Birth

By Jean Macpherson “Potatoes are especially sensitive to changes in soil moisture when they are forming tubers− between the time they flower and two weeks before harvest. Monitor soil moisture and water whenever the soil is dry more than 2 … Continue reading

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Poem by Jackie Simmons

My Cousin Wants to Shoot Mexicans By Jackie Simmons She told me so. Me, and 271 of her closest friends on Facebook. I don’t want to ever be accused of being a bad journalist, poet, or human being so I … Continue reading

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Poem By Salma Ruth Bratt

Border Crosser By Salma Ruth Bratt Curious Sunday morning When the migra stretches His green sleeve To stop me With a grunt and a snort The bus yawns open And spits them out They emerge triumphant Defiant and hopeful Moving … Continue reading

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Two Poems by Rachelle Cruz

elegy for lucille Rachelle Cruz i stole your book of light from a roommate’s shelf and climbed into the fire escape the book slipped from my fingers spilling ash on the sidewalk the city crying let it, let it another … Continue reading

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Two Poems By Truth Thomas

Hole in One (for Soweto) By Truth Thomas Punches through phone books hurt less than this. Had I known the hurt my mother hid under goodbye hugs—her feathers—I would not have flown so quickly from her incubating arms. But such … Continue reading

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Two Poems By Iris Jamahl Dunkle

The Distance Between by Iris Jamahl Dunkle 1 Grateful for the tree, not just what’s air-bound:               oak trunk thick enough to thwart cannon balls               black bark, dark tributaries opening               arthritically toward sky                                                   but also what’s beneath soil’s vinculum:                                                   uncharted roots, … Continue reading

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Where We Stand: Poetry, Legacy and Sorrow

By Victor D. Infante It would have been Erica Erdman’s birthday today, a fact the Internet has been reminding me of incessently. It’s a jarring little quirk of technology, this seeing the names and faces of dead friends appear unbidden … Continue reading

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Two Poems by Robert Bohm

At Great Kills Field, Staten Island two days before I turn 68 By Robert Bohm 1 When the fathers lean against the chain-link backstop, each grimly eyeing the details of his son’s playing, the baby in a stroller next to … Continue reading

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Poem by Yago S. Cura

Tally By Yago S. Cura After you were corralled in Brega, before they transferred you to Tripoli, Berlin starts teething hard; I mean I can hear his teeth coming in: sounds like slack getting waxed. Meanwhile, several other journos have … Continue reading

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Poem by Leslie McGrath

Two Poles and a Suicide (in memoriam Reetika Vazirani) By Leslie McGrath Look how her dark eyes smile black as her last night, though the photo is curled, yellow. A chip. A chip to shoulder. She was sorceress, sorely loved, … Continue reading

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