Tag: Poetry

I am watching you watching me, not realizing I'm watching you. The stage and colored lights create an illusory distance, But it is really a platform...

    Monterrey mountaincradled where the words of the poets are writ large on crumbling walls Monterrey manymartyred where American bullet holes still scar the bridges like braille Monterrey motherspring where the cerros weep warm tears at the...

FUTURE Past is not identity crucible of reflection beginning and end younger brother shadow hanging limply on the wreckage of the future comet flaming arc of now blazing through the blackness signed sealed delivered! TELLURIDE There is a...

I struggle to understand The Trinidadian who Muffles his thick accent With a waxily calloused hand As kazoo and electric bass Rattle in a concrete and metal can, Mixed with...

I will destroy you. Nothing you know about you Will be the same After me. You will not cease to exist, But the you that was, will disappear. I will...

The Hamilton/South Caddo branch of the Shreve Memorial Library (2111 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Shreveport, LA 71118) is featuring authors on topics including feminism...

The Money Tree Hail you fool blind-eyed prophet! What coming storms did you see In your red rage-madness And your black death-sadness When the gods sang doom to thee? I...

I wonder, long-dead-brothers, did you weep When they cast you down to dark, fitful sleep? Filled your skulls with molten lead Traitor’s finding fee to claim Your bodies,...

Riders four, we set forth on our grim way I rode a red horse, my brother – pale grey Our sister followed in terrible might Mounted on...

From across the room, Your eyes icily smolder, Like sunlight catching Ancient water Imprisoned in a glacier, Alice blue and white, Cold and bright, Intoxicatingly inviting, Yet fraught with danger, Deceptively beautiful. Frozen and...