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[Poem-a-Week] Bread Pudding by Felicia Taylor E.
From sunup to beyond sundown, she cooked to nourish and to delight. On Sunday mornings I could smell the delicious aroma of the satisfying fragrant…
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[Poem-a-Week] Chasing Black Boots by Wendy A. Garcia
Blinking lights and mezcal, Your silhouette through my glass, Come closer, Come closer, Drink from me. Traces of you in my drink, Smokey cloves, Dancing…
[Poem-a-Week] Rebecca Archer’s Great Expectations by Aileen Cassinetto
-- after Maya Angelou It is sunrise, with hope its arrogant/ rider. How it sprang up, buoyed,/ as I ran to catch the bus and almost/ missed it. There’s…
[Poem-a-Week]The Kids Won’t Know What the Police Sirens Sound Like by free
The kids won’t know what / the police sirens sound like. / they will live to see the mountains / flourish and grow taller
[Poem-a-Week] Portrait of Icarus At A Dive Bar by Timothy Furgal
How did you get here, so far from home? His hair short, always windswept to a fault, a golden cloud. The sun went down hours ago, hiding out in the…
[Poem-a-Week] Black Jesus by Frances Johnson
When I was three years old I met with Black Jesus / He was a velvet portrait / Tears streamed down his eyes as he wore the crown of thorns
[Poem-a-Week] Unholy Sonnet by Beverly Burch
Some days it’s all effluvia and blood soak. / Some days tongues speak so dirty they need soaping. / Sweet tumescent tissues beg for transgression…
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