Showing posts with label tragedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tragedy. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

YELLOW FINCH

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by Tara Menon A yellow finch with blacks stripes on wings stands on what’s left of a yellow zinnia. The yellow finch explodes like the sun a...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

WHITE FLAGS, WALKING SOUTH

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by Amy Wolf I see* you, with your white flag raised on a stick, held high. Child on your shoulder, two little legs dangling beneath your ear...
Monday, April 25, 2022

ANTIGONE IN MARIUPOL

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by Bonnie Naradzay Mariupol, Ukraine 17 April 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko I searched the ruined city for my brother to consecrate him...
Monday, April 06, 2020

AUGURY

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Richard Meyer , a former English and humanities teacher, lives in Mankato, MN. He was awarded the 2012 Robert Frost Farm Prize for his ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

DANGEROUS WOMEN

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by Elizabeth S. Wolf It was her first concert out with friends. The gang of girls. Besties since babies, they said. They picked ou...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

THE RIBCAGE CLINGS TO A LOVER TIGHTER AFTER YET ANOTHER TRAGEDY

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by J. Bradley A man and woman hug on the streets of Manchester. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA via The Guardian , May 23, 2017 The talk...
Monday, August 15, 2016

THE WATER PARK IN AUGUST

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by Melissa Fite Johnson I. Before After Kansas City soccer, Children’s Mercy Park, we drive south for home, two hours away. The w...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

THE MOON'S SURFACE

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by Austin Alexis
 Devastated long ago by asteroids, and now stark— a grim, gray landscape filled with unease. That's the damn...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

THE MILITARY DIET IS KILLING ME

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by Sarah Frances Moran Image source: The Military Diet For breakfast I have a piece of toast with peanut butter. My stomach g...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR

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by Jean L. Kreiling You gasp and smile at bright chrysanthemums that bloom for just a moment in the sky, and hardly give a thought...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

CANNIBAL KING,
or EVERYWHERE IS SANDY HOOK

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by Howie Good God, if there is one, must be a very old man who sits on a stool in the shade of a sidewalk tree, now & again doz...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

FOR THE ESTRANGED ON MOTHER'S DAY

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Imps of Insomnia by Larry Litt Image source: Becky Says Things True Nature doesn’t give a damn. Imps in darkest tossed nights Sleepl...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

THE DEMISE OF THE MONARCH

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by Tricia Knoll “Monsanto’s Roundup and genetically modified crops are harming everybody’s favorite butterfly.” -- Warren Cornwall, Sla...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

A GREEK TRAGEDY

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by BZ Niditch Yannis Ritsos (Photo source: http://mhsteger.tumblr.com/ ) Even the ancients would be surprised when news had to be whi...