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Tag: News Poetry
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: 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...
News Poetry: Of Diesels and Subterfuge
Of Diesels and Subterfuge
Ordinary Tuesday,
meaning evil & good are pulling
on different ends of the same serpent.
I am hardly bothered by their charade
anymore. I’ve got...
News Poetry: Poetry Lesson after the Las Vegas Shooting
Do not write the word heart.
Like every overused word,
its meaning has bled out,
the way snowflake, repeated,
dissolves into sound.
And thoughts becomes nothing
but the tongue thudding
against...
News Poetry: Dear Congress
Dear Congress
I never want to write another poem
titled: again
So I’m sending you a pen
I never want to hear the cries
the shattering bullets
from an automatic...
News Poetry: Undocumented?
Every day wear sturdy shoes
in case you need to run.
Pack a small bag, keep it
light and close.
Sew money into the lining
of your coat.
Bid your...