epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Carolyn Forche [Forché, Carolyn]

And the geese, rising and falling in the rain on a surf of black hands Sheets of rain and geese invisible or gone Someone was supposed to have come Waves ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Ollie Schminkey [Schminkey, Ollie]

I WRITE MY DEAD NAME IN MY FATHER’S OBITUARY but we are not here to have a funeral for my name. we are here to have a funeral for my ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Ari B. Cofer

when our skin is too much my husband is a black man. he is beautiful and dark-skinned and puts the earth’s soil to shame— not because his melanin is darker ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-19 | Author:Amanda Moore

Self-Defense Haibun The school called it Assertiveness Training for girls 13 and over. At the end-of-day showcase they are practicing self-defense against their teachers who are disguised by inches of ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-12 | Author:Iain S. Thomas

A Bell at the Bottom of a Pond Somewhere inside of you, there’s hope and a voice waiting to say better things. Waiting to tell the truth. A Closed Blind ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Robert Frost

“There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards, Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted. We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. Blueberries “You ought to ...

epub |eng | 2003-12-15 | Author:Donald Hall [Hall, Donald]

TWO THESE LAST WORDS I wrote more than a week ago, and I wrote them on a Friday without consciousness of anxiety. Saturday I drove to Vermont and back, talking ...

epub |eng | 2020-09-02 | Author:Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol

9" Some people experience physical war, but all I know is the war within. Selfishness When I consider the power of decisions, I can’t help but think of the lessons ...

epub |eng | 2020-09-22 | Author:Alicia Cook

Track Forty-Seven I’ve been using the energy I can muster to force together apologies and promises like a child frustrated that the puzzle pieces don’t fit, when they absolutely look ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Devon Walker-Figueroa

Drain At seven, I learned the logic of cedars— their relentless failure to live, the frail flame they leave for you to cut down & to curse. The locals called ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-10 | Author:Brandon Leake

In life, I’m just trying to Maneuver around these land mines To try and land mine. Cause too much pressure At the right spot but the wrong time, Could lead ...

epub |eng | 2021-06-05 | Author:Melissa Broder

PROPER DISPOSAL OF HOLY WATER When I purge the abscess of a girlhood I am heavier a female. Thick lips belch the zeros of my previous condition. The headmistress of ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-30 | Author:Jillian Weise

At one time, we were our answers. I like to hum More Than Words when I’m snowed-in and hungry, when your apparition stirs from my couch, undresses, steps in the ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Catarine Hancock

one time i compared us to the sun and moon. our brief encounters were eclipses: beautiful and over too soon. perhaps we were the sun and the moon, but instead ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-29 | Author:Patricia Kirkpatrick

She remembered them pushing her through doors opened to clatter and cold instruments. She could speak and she knew words. Craniotomy. They had put her to sleep, lifted skin, drilled ...