Tag: Poems Fall 2023
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Linda Angelo
To Lose Yourself first you must retirefrom the checking of calendars,dates and weather stop fretting overscatterings of sticky notesmeant to keep you in order you may find yourself wandering back roads, feelingthe breeze, watching for cows lurking in deep oceanswimming slow circles with sea turtles lost in holy hoursholding the hand of your dying friend…
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Mykyta Ryzhykh
Untitled I dream that mosquitoes get rid of their bloody religion and cry in painmy red hands have become a mosquito graveyard all night I dream of graves without flowers Untitled my mother counts the amount of lead and uranium in the earth’s soilthe earth is round like the earththe sky is black like a…
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Cathleen Sanford Haar
Mycenae 2013, An Epitaph The darkening sky clamps down helmet tight against the mountains. A hissing windsnakes through cracks in the walls made from boulders so heavy that only Cyclopscould have hoisted them into place. It’s our last day in Greece and it’s turned coldon us, sudden as Clytemnestra’s revenge. Rain pocks the graveled ground,…
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Manny Grimaldi
Rafael Alberti Destroys His Paintings Perhaps since I can see well in the dark, that is why I have no heart.Mornings I brush urgently past custodians in El Prado to paint my little boxersnear the Goya and the Velasquez, then snuff them out with dribblesof acetone within hours; the layers smudge and drip to a…
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Ellen D. B. Riggle
He / She / They He/ His entitled, valued, privileged, unquestioned, authority, respected, confident, professional, leader, recognized, interesting, expert, praised, agentic, powerful, validated, in control, competent, consequential She/Her unvalued, less than, questionable, questioned, disbelieved, not credible, shamed, mocked, interrupted, unheard, unseen, silenced, weak, ignored, belittled, ridiculed, incompetent, patronized, trivialized They/Them uhhh §“Can I…
Pegasus 