NOW, I CAN SEE by RR SuperNova
There used to be a time Where we were rooted in our land The whispers of the wind Gave us wisdom in our path. Awed we were By this colorful world Then pale it became Accompanied by segregation As well as dismay. Blood has been spilled For our lady’s torch And through the years Cultures […]
whose freedom are they celebrating? by linda m crate
the fireworks are booming, whose freedom are they celebrating because not everyone is free? police brutality is still happening, kids are still dying in cages, black and brown people are dying; people are still screaming at me that all lives matter and dragging their heels in any time i try to explain that black people […]
Lent by Regina Jamison
We sacrificed our children armed them with gospel instead of guns sent them with words to confront violence taught them to turn the other cheek while the enemy wore hoods carried ropes while they hung us from the trees we planted we know terror America – our Pontius Pilate won’t let us walk on water […]
without any sense of irony by jck henry
he bellows from the pulpit about sodomites hell bent on destroying the Christian world through homosexuality. i sit quietly in the backrow eating an apple i stole from a small bodega across the street. his voice & cadence are mesmerizing. he sways & moves, long thin branches drifting in the wind. he is beautiful, with […]
We The People Thank You (Falettinme In Traduce My Self, Again) by Daniel García Ordaz
We the people willingly wrote ourselves into a constitutional corner— a colossal conundrum of corrupted consummation, a Cain-enabled Original Sin of biblical proportion. The Virginia Compromise left us compromised, incomplete— a three-fifths fraction that fractured our nascent faction replete with built-in failure: a self-inflicted wound, an aggravated assault of our own fault, a festering sore […]
