Memory Paralysis
By LionHeart
‘Everybody else don’t move, that’s off they ears, oh he gone get in trouble,
that’s off they memory, they don’t move, they enslaved, they enslaved
to what could possibly happen’ – Kanye West … Continue reading→
The Patriarchy Apologizes
By Tony Brown
Dear Baby Baby,
I’m going to shut up now
after saying I’m sorry;
you must know I lament how
this world is all so very
violent. The sky … Continue reading→
Body Politic With Crumbling Bridges & Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall
— thanks to Andy Borowitz’s New Yorker, 31 August 2015 title [I substituted Body Politic for Nation.]
By Gerard Sarnat
Google Glasses looked forward to perusing … Continue reading→
Traffic Stop, Port-au-Prince
By Jason Rusch
People said this would happen:
Your red, sleepless eyes, dust-coated
hands gripping pistol, white foam
dried in the corners of your mouth
frozen by palsy. Brother, the moto … Continue reading→
Handicraft
By Ankita Anand
The women of my house
Breathe with their hands.
Tongues bitten by their own teeth beat a hasty retreat,
Eyelids securely tie stormy words within the eyes.
All’s silent but you know that … Continue reading→