The Prince of Vowels
‘A’ distinguishes book from chair though not without a fight we watch them duke it out four legs vs a thousand pages jab sting hook stun…
Yusef Komunyakaa poem
another amazing poem from this fine poet….
Metaphor
an alligator moon crawls slowly over us like three stars a billion light-years apart seen as a constellation resembling a rhino you can’t be too careless…
Remnants in Place
A shuffling sound half-heard almost asleep, remnants of a dream mobile shadows sliding away almost tactile hints of past desires the Real teasing us from just…
The New Yorker’s poetry bot
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/celebrate-national-poetry-month-with-the-new-yorker-poetry-bot Celebrating National Poetry Month…
for National Poetry Month
a fine poem by Yusef Komunyakaa, called The Body Remembers see a review of his recent book of poems, The Emperor of Water Clocks, here
Audio: Martin Luther King — Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence — Vox Populi
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4, 1967 – Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full and unabridged] “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break…
A Carla May moment
1. It’s a bright morning without seasons, clocks, or calendars; these have long since broken we called the Help Desk but the line was dead meanwhile…
kept in the fridge by famous poets
on ice, or over ice…
Enough Is
an old saw played with a bow an hour in Sedro-Woolley three drowned olives, a scone, and the left hand of God “O what a rogue…
The Dog Star 