Wednesday, August 31, 2016

THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

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by Joan Colby With apologies to T.S. Eliot August is the deadliest month, breeding 400 shootings, 78 dead in the city, mixing Me...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

DOVES BY STORMLIGHT

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by David Chorlton Wednesday’s was a sky to cleanse a sinner of his sins: apocalyptic rays from sunset streaming up against a stor...
Monday, August 29, 2016

RELAXING INTO BLACKNESS

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by Orel Protopopescu  “He [Obama] was not always free to relax into his blackness, out of fear that it would frighten white America....
Sunday, August 28, 2016

I SHOULD HAVE PLAYED

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by Martha Landman after “Unfinished Business” by Primo Levi Sir, please accept my apology for taking up your time. And the ap...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

GHAZAL: A NIGHT ALREADY DEVOID OF STARS

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by Jackleen Holton Hookway       Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding a deeper darkness to a night already dev...
Friday, August 26, 2016

THE RED MAN WITH CLOSED EYES

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by Tanmoy Das Lala You call them rapists, murderers, criminals , mock             The silence of a grieving mother, yet The peop...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

THE AMERICAN CREDO, 2016 VERSION

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by George Salamon The United States, the wealthiest nation on Earth, also abides the deepest poverty of any developed nation, but you...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

A SCRAP OF FOUND PARCHMENT (TO AN ATHENIAN SWIMMER)

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by Jenna Le Ryan Lochte explains how a Trojan wall ran into his chariot. Do you believe you deserve your leisure, drunk spraddle-leg...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

THE BLOODIED BOY AND THE GAMES

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by Jay Sizemore Can you hit the water like a knife, so sharp and so quiet it remains oblivious to the stabbing?           No some...
Monday, August 22, 2016

MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS & THE BURKINI BAN

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by Judith Terzi Image source: Judith Terzi after “What people are saying about ‘burkinis’ in France”  — L.A. Times , August 18,...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

MUSE IN ALFALFA FIELDS

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by David Spicer I roar through Utopia in my steroid Chevy, cram a baguette in this gorge of a mouth, a poster boy for broccoli ha...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

WALT WHITMAN AT THE 2016 OLYMPICS

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by Bob Katrin O for any and each the body correlative and attracting. Singing the muscular urge and the blending… the welcome nearness…...
Friday, August 19, 2016

SOBERANES FIRE 2016

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by Jennifer Lagier #SoberanesFire #Monterey #BigSur Image source: KPCC Fire Tracker Concours d’Conflagration: Day 15, 35% containme...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

HARNEY PEAK

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by Amy Brunvand “A federal board on Thursday renamed Harney Peak in the Black Hills to Black Elk Peak, saying the name of the state...