We Must Do Better by Linda M. Crate
in my america religion wouldn’t be used as a weapon, it would simply be one’s personal beliefs; and people would be loved and accepted as they were— no one would have any fear of hate crimes or being shot up in a night club simply because of who they love, because diversity exists in every […]
Not Your Sink, Not Your Dishes by Gabby Gilliam
I sipped lightning like sweet tea, let it rinse the sand from between my teeth, spit glass shards of unease into my palm. Independence Day lit up social feeds with jaded grumbles–a vacation from patriotism and the sweltering pressure of election propaganda, and a nation screamed for better candidates one man trying to make space […]
On The Longest Day by Fernando Esteban Flores
Nothing shakes off the oppressive summer heat A sign of our times A lone dragonfly dips then Zips away in An erratic unfanciful flight of urgency To sideswipe the strung out day Sparrows twitter protestations To the prince of air The temperature strangles The living Browbeats poetry Into a devastating ennui News no longer new […]
THERE ARE NO WRONG DECADES ONLY THOSE DOING THE WRONGING by Alexis Jaimes
Land of opportunity is actually land of chance to be born in the wrong decade one where you’re gassed up in gasoline baths or encaged by Juan Crow or operated by Operation Wetback or stripped of your Zoot Suits or one where you are detained when you should feel enraged you are free to speak […]
re: courage by jp thorn
after ada, bethany, carolyn, cortney, cynthia, david, diana, emily, laurel, mary, neecie, sarah & the thunderhead neglect is lethal procrastination; my gut moves me to love y’all & most of myself. what if i was brave today? aging into who i’ve always been, terror then soft. carolyn says courageous acts enter a poem: lotus colony […]
