Friday, December 20, 2024

WAR CHILD

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by Kay White Drew “A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and a...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

DANCING AT THE CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S BALL

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at Sam Houston Coliseum in the 1950's and 1960's by Suzanne Morris The Southwest Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thu...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

BABY JESUS ON A KEFFIYEH

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by  Catherine Gonick Beyond the manger sounds the roar—of politics, revisionist history, replacement theology. Of Palestinian identity and J...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

TOO MANY / TO MANY

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by Ron Riekki Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced toda y [December 12, 2024] that the Mount Vernon, Ne...
Monday, December 16, 2024

DIE-OFF

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by Pepper Trail Ocean Heat Wiped Out Half These Seabirds Around Alaska: About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of e...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

POEM TO RUMI

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for my granddaughter by Tina Williams AI-generated graphic by NightCafe for  The New Verse News . “Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused o...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

DECEMBER 2024

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a Golden Shovel poem based on a line from Wendell Berry’s  “Sabbaths 2005 I” by Joanne Kennedy Frazer distressed     appalled     by all    ...
Friday, December 13, 2024

SHORT DIVISION

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by Diana Morley Must cut says the prez-elect in one of his cozy countless buildings   slipping in partners in crime all the slime that’s fit...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

A BANANA, A WANNABE OLIGARCH, AND A CONCEPT WALK INTO A BAR

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by  Tom Lagasse A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwor...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

GIRLY BOY

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by Jean Voneman Mikhail  AI-generated graphic by NightCafe for The New Verse News . My little boy blue,  as a child you wore  girl-pink, not...