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Saturday, January 19, 2019

O'BRADY CROSSES ANTARCTICA

by Fran Davis

"Crossing Antarctica: How the Confusion Began

and Where Do We Go From Here"—ExplorersWeb, January 9, 2019

ice ice ice
solo man
sastrugi beat your heart
the sled your life
up and over
ridge and trough

sky and ice
meld to white
muscles only
read the miles
ridge and trough
ice shelf sings

arctic sleep
frigid fingers flex
grip the dream
twenty-five below
up and over
ridge and trough

why why why
solo man
in deep flow state
sastrugi beat
the losing ice
yield to frozen heart

Fran Davis writes a column for Coastal View News in California. Her work has been published in TheNewVerse.News, travel books, periodicals and numerous print and online journals.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

AN IMMIGRANT'S JOURNEY

by Austin Alexis

Immigrant children at Ellis Island gather around a toy horse in 1920 (NYC Vintage Images). Source: The Atlantic

A sea

she will paddle upon

or attempt a desperate swim in

while hoping to shoo off sharks.

A mountain

she will hike through,

braving mudslides,

slicing through brambles.

A desert

she will trek across,

stepping over rattlesnakes

as she swallows fear of starvation

and guides her children

to reach milk and honey

even if the milk is sour,

the honey bitter.

Austin Alexis is the author of the full-length collection Privacy Issues (Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press) and two chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Paterson Literary Review and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Poetry Pacific (Canada) and The Five-Two: Crime Poetry Weekly.

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Saturday, January 19, 2019

O'BRADY CROSSES ANTARCTICA

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

AN IMMIGRANT'S JOURNEY