“I Traveled through a Land of Men…”
By Poetry Issue 100
Everywhere on my stroll among these rolling hills this morning, I see nude young men. I’d say they are naked as well. Many are undressed. Quite a few have no clothes on.
Read MoreThe House of Reinvention
By Poetry Issue 100
The guards can never leave the House of Correction because they work there but I can leave quick as I can dream. I close my eyes and hear singing again.
Read MoreI and We
By Poetry Issue 100
I could never have abandoned you if I hadn’t abandoned myself.
Read MoreRadiant Energy
By Poetry Issue 79
Little cherub, do you not fly? Or have you landed here in clothing of light To fool the eye? If I hear you in my heart Are you not alive? What I cannot touch I feel I cannot know And yet I know you are in my knowing If knowing is a body, does it…
Read MoreHow Do You Market Prayers?
By Poetry Issue 79
Does your prayer cross the street? Or is it like the skin of the serpent Scratched against a stick or sharp stone? Does your prayer shred? Has your prayer Ever heard a man cry, or touched a woman’s fur? No prayer for the smashed teeth of Ai Wei Wei held against his will? I saw…
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