By Irina Ratushinskaya
I know it won't be received
Or sent. The page will be
In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
Later. …
Or sent. The page will be
In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
Later. …
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- By Solmaz SharifStudies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's…
- By Anne CarsonIf I were an early person
I'd look for the limits of human wisdom
by going to sacred oak trees
or the local… - By Sylvia ChanI want to begin this poem with two stories:1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural…
- By Mike DoughtyHe was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in…
- By Erik TschekunowSix times every day we stand at the thresholds
of our cells to be counted, to be matched against
the… - By J. V. CunninghamPlato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,
How random wrong
Will average right… - By Kevin PruferThe brutality of those two men
who broke into her apartment
and murdered her boyfriend,
then, as she… - By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s
bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths,
and science… - By Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven!
O silent sign of winter skies!
What adverse wind thy sail has driven… - By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped,
the assaulted—
my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit
backordered… - By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama
Most strong in White gaze as in
a Cowbird’s flirtation
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- By OvidSome are transformed just once
And live their whole lives after in that shape.
Others have a facility… - By CAConradmelting glaciers
frighten me when
appearing on
my street as… - By Evie ShockleyAnd now, reader, I come to a period in my unhappy life, which I would gladly forget if I could. Asia…
- By Janelle Tanthe card machine is broken again.
on the platform, a boy
jumps the turnstile behind me.
i notice him… - By Patricia Smith"I seen it lots of times, I seen it, just from being
on the street when something new was going down… - By Patricia SmithWhen a bullet enters the brain, the head explodes.
I can think of no softer warning for the mothers
… - By Crystal Simone SmithHe was an open book. An opening book. That had just been opened up somewhat wider. By sorrow. And-by…
- By Donna Aza Weir-SoleyLights, camera, action!
Cue George Floyd
crying for his Black mother
for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
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