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News Poetry: “2018: The Year in Review – A Prose Poem”
At Garrison Keillor’s Hague trial for fixing The World Cup, Justice Gorsuch mistakenly referred to George Papadopoulos as “George Pocahontas”. In the ensuing melee,...
News Poetry: Made in America
You have the right to bear arms
to bear poverty
to bear discrimination.
You have the right to assemble
in free-speech zones
behind well-marked chain link fences.
You have the...
News Poetry: “Belle Turnbull: Colorado’s Unsung Master”
Long-versed as we’ve been, deep-footed
in pioneer doggerel, blind poet fancies
& sing-song sentimentalities -- those
Victorian staples of mining camp news-
papers in post-statehood Colorado – it
came...
News Poetry: Puerto Rico, Preamble for an Elegy
Seems blue tarp
____is the new shade this season,
____and light comes battery and generator driven.
What the wind stripped
____was patina of paradise and the skin beneath
____not...
News Poetry: (Survivors)
Language is like eating ice cream, with a fork.
I apologize to another person for forgetting their birthday
and wonder if it’s possible to forget something...
News Poetry: Hating Hillary
My sister starts a story she heard from a wealthy
Miami restaurateur leans close
this is before...
News Poetry: Bedtime Story for Denver
Once again upon too many times, a girl
was stolen from her family and delivered
to men. They leered, breathed fire down her neck,
nodded to one...
News Poetry: A Different Sort of Eden
Sometimes a woman, to defend herself,
or her cubs, will dress up as a bear,
pluck, one by one, the twenty ribs of a man,
and strap...
News Poetry: Me Too
Me Too
If you want to know
rage rags on women
like menstrual blues
Sit down here and I’ll
wash...
News Poetry: The Judas Horse
The Judas Horse
In the forgotten acres
of the American west,
sun-splashed, alkaline places,
stone-strewn and arid,
there are pockets of wild horses
living on miles and miles of miles
and...