Photo: Jake Bellucci/FlickrWhat holds water in a droptension that holds humans inbetween their sweet skinswater holds usher arms baystide of bloodbeat so close just our skins betweenhome and oc…
Poetry
Photo: WerbeFabrik/PixabayA bottom-lit sea ponders the lake’s questions,their secret conversations thatch howls to whimpers exhaled from an isthmus of drowned wolves. Its glossary’s cat…
Photo: Mark Brodie/Pixabaybetween landscape and the female body:earth sand stones plants flowers blooda silhouette digging molding carving space…
Photo: Granger Meador/FlickrOur stuck tongues screamed louder In Alabama, words hung in a rhythm Reservation hands could basket Tied back rocks rose, picked Tarnished cigarettes un…
Marwin Begaye (Diné), Riders of the Storm II, lithograph, 15 x 22 in / Courtesy of the artist (@m.begaye2015)That day my guardian angel was cast out,she responded, “Fine, your heaven is too bougie,and…
Photo: HeinerTenz/PixabayDaybreakAfter the watch, dorveille,pin-prick of stud in sky,before that six a.m.first warbler wake-up callfrom elm above the deck,in dream a wife no longeranswers to…
Kim Shuck, Warrior Trout (2016), 15/0 glass seed beads on brain-tanned hide, 9 x 2.5 in / Courtesy of the artist and Doug Salin PhotographyMemory spirits give me days full of…
Photo: David Cantu/FlickrBrother piles sand on his pregnant girlfriend’s belly. On her sandy stomach I draw a belly button. Soon it will be dusk and the last surfers in the distance will dis…
Photo: Dan Zen/FlickrI think they know – about every leaf I’d catch to peel from my tongue. It spoke to how good I was at being alone. This morning I sit in the still kitchen, rued…
Photo: Mike Charest/FlickrThat slick envelope of developed film is tumbled in a storage closet next to old seating charts and a stale granola bar in foil.In one of the frames,…
Photo: George MogaNo.Nothing.Nothing on a really tall chair; a chair with very long legs; up to the sky, which was empty. And down fell fragrance; fragrance of flowers, although there were no fl…
December 5th 2016 / No Spiritual Surrender by Zoë Marieh Urness (zoeurnessphoto.com), taken at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakotathere are persons who delight in human sufferi…
“Vets Stream into Standing Rock.” Photo: Joe Brusky/Flickrfor Zhooniyah Ogitchida, with gratitudeHe walked to the frontline in his Army combat shirt.On it, his sergeant badge, name tape, US A…
Anila Quayyum Agha, Alahambra Nights (2016), acrylic and halogen bulb, 30” x 27” x 30” / Courtesy of the artistQasida of the Bridge of TeacupsThe soul cleaves into two somewhere alo…
Photo: Tanya Hart Go TheeAnd the way you gathered up your excess soulbefore it spilled to the floor.At the end of the Hebrew-Yiddish-English poetry readingand you went to eat shawarma…
Photo: Andreas Manessinger/FlickrOld friend, when we meet, we will meetas two shelves of wings and many harsh years, as one imagination that won’t exchange toasts:there’s no one to stomp the grap…
Photo: Susanna HsingRhythmLucretius’s atomic rain falls graduallyabove daily congestion, wetting my earlobes with noise.I’ve swallowed the good parts of several dropssleepy dissonance.On one…
Gaza City. Photo: Getty / AFP photo / Mahmud Hams History moves darkly and we are small, soft things. …
Photo: Claude Valette EvolutionI was once a Paleolithic painter, a sensual hunterplundering the earth, living from hand to mouth.I painted at the cave’s corner, concerned o…
Photo by Zsolt Andrasi/FlickrGlints of the tram. The nondescript housesdream numb underwater dreams. Faces aretransparent bubbles popping off from the windowswhere water used to break through. The ped…
Photo by Todd Slagter/Flickr A BridgeBehind us a sea-cliff, landfall, ahead the wind,tar-smoke, the sea, a carrick.We sway on a bridge between themabove a great shattering. We have leftthe verge,…
Photo: US Army IMCOMBodyFor Hassan Rabeh, young dancer displaced from Syria, who killed himself by jumping from a seventh-floor balcony in Beirut, Wednesday, June 22, 2016& perhaps you fl…
Photo: Train Photos/FlickrA Swap At the market bus stopI’m waiting with a man in ragged clothes,unshaven, his hair greasy,swinging his hand holding a big plastic bagwith “The Big Shopper” written…
Photo by Kai C. Schwarzer/FlickrOn recent nights בַּלֵּילוֹת הָאַחֲרוֹנִיםאֲנִי מְחַפֶּשֶׂת אֶת הַבַּיִת שֶׁלִּינָעָה אַחֲרָיו בִּשְׁבִילֵי הַיְקוּםאַרְבָּעִים שְׁנוֹת מִדְבָּרמְגַשֶּׁשֶׁת ב…
Open book on a bed. Photo by Steve Petrucelli 9:40 a.m. / Venipuncture The way they step on one another’s heelsuntil a spindle-legged woman with dyedhair trips in the queue, and all stickthe…
