war
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“I’m expecting to see a new Hiroshima.”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 626 said he was eager to get home but bracing himself for what he might see ill be lucky celebrations had already begun in raqqa still led forces said on tuesday rivals like kurds and arabs in both iraq celebrations had already begun in raqqa office all fighting declared a caliphate declared…
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Strange Candy
Wikipedia Poem, No. 613 xerxes burrows into his thing-pink shirt for safety i never said he plays with geometry not consciously however i pity him welcome him to his soul where hallucinations manifest themselves into the guy or gal the bloodpool dreams of the battle of thermopylae sit down hero he wants a backyard with…
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Therapy (Pulling Red Thread)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 483 dazzle in bayonne them i spot the battleship a brave thing in me but better in college baionnette bayonne diminutive bayon i am a human who sits unlike a trough purchased long at the academic front leaking a long narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of control…
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Pruned by Flowerheads
Wikipedia Poem, No. 470 if not changing then flowering but coiled around one’s jaw pruned by flowerheads climbing from thoughtful pink illusions outside-in size color everything everywhere grown out of my heads (climbing despite mainland macrophylla here in america which only grows in dangerous popular culture the dangerous species is its own meaning some crumpled…
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Norman Wilkinson
Wikipedia Poem, No. 459 objects of war as large as large as large as large as large as largely due to the number of morale ships in 1917 shipping ships in name only form this made it difficult the summer of 1917 shipping ships invented on ships shipping colours of summer shipping the name dazzled…
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Poets Reading the News publishes ‘Agraphia’
A great poetry website, Poets Reading The News, has published another one of my poems, Agraphia, along with one my recent photos, Car 5 (above). I’m extraordinarily fond, and proud, of this poem. It’s about the way that war and violence affect one’s humanity. It begins with a quote from Gabriele de’ Mussi, a historian of…
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Muriel Rukeyser
Wikipedia Poem, No. 431 remain consistent a commitment to an apt description of her feminist activities garnered her our twentieth-century coleridge our neruda organized protests against the whole of her remarkable femininity a woman a jew a jew a jew a jew a jew a single multitude the trial of american poetry an apt description…
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Overwatch Widow-Enabled Ableton Overton Windowlicker
Wikipedia Poem, No. 421 slow nintendo eyes hallucinate on the tree tops of war & other manly fears fighting basslines back from the castle bulwark the soldier barks playing his muse like a hard bleak nest expelling supernatural darkness ruins spring up in the suicide forest nestle his falsetto starving else blue eyed moneymonkey plays…
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“for my own sanity”
“I felt driven—for my own sanity—to bring together in my poems the political world ‘out there’—the world of children dynamited or napalmed, of the urban ghetto and militarist violence—and the supposedly private, lyrical world of sex and of male/female relationships.” Adrienne Rich, “Blood, Bread, and Poetry”
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 376
of sizzle—her innards disposed of meaning sow plated for a child in the hourglass faces down thin strips of sizzle—her innards disposed of meaning to letter law it is passionate play that is passionate play that is passionate play the comprise of choices it is cold here—stuck through with the bear— that is cold…
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