I was inspired to write this poem after reading Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees. The book excellently brought to life the hidden processes trees use to stay alive. I felt The Tree of Ténéré, despite its quiet and solitary life, should once again be brought to life in a way that would reflect these processes.
Roe v. Wade-related | Cunt, by Daire Shaw
Instinctively I feel annoyed When I hear that word Flung at men like them Cheap vicious vapid men Vain shallow …
Erasure the Occupant #20 | Tweedling While Rome Burns, by Jay Mog
The text was found in “The Remedy for Mitch McConnell” by Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes on theatlantic.com. Image edited from a drawing by John Tenniel in “Alice Through the Looking Glass.”
Photo of McConnell by the AP. Photo of Graham by Erin Scott, Reuters.
Learning Through My Sister
This piece was inspired by a hybrid piece by Anne Carson titled “Swimming By My Brother”. It’s about my sister and my similar experience with the two times my father had heart attacks, both occurring while we each were very young, though both events happened within ten years of each other.
comb and paper
You are plastic fine-tooth and tissue three-ply, non-recycled, wetted with a child’s tongue. The hooting rasp of your unexpressed love. …
Wrestling the Air
In the pit of my stomach The devil lives in there With a barbiturate honor system A bipolar at …
Moko Kakariki
The whiptail resting lightly on the rock, Duvet of sunshine & dust— Skin chicken pickt, mind still racing, Her eyelids …
Drip-fed Division
Peace will never sell papers – “Read all about it!”, meditation makes the front page. Drip-fed division, consumed over …
The Senate Failed America
Editor’s notes for this piece: “Trump Joins OJ Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein On List Of Totally Innocent People Represented By Alan Dershowitz,” Heisenberg Report.
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A president so represent’d by Dershowitz,
who fought for Jeffrey Epstein, O.J. Simpson—
two VERY not-guilty people.
No Diamonds Left to Give
Said I was a subtle mess,No figure in my loose dress.But oh, you touched my pretty hairEnchanted with that evening …
HANDS OFF MY CHILD’S LUNCH
January 2020 And then they went after the lunch menus: more junk food, less grapes and peas & carrots. This …
Nature Finds a Way
by Hokis, Senior Editor remember:nature did not makerevolution, nor thehand-crafted grooves lining the long barrelof the first detached war machine. remember:nature …
