White Clover March, mourning dove purrs I look down at her feet there it was, it found me plucked it from the root and said a prayer tender, wiry, full of life and still– Rare. grandma yes, sweetheart do you know how lucky you are to have so many and Read more…
Anti-colonial mantras vandalized On the sides of dilapidated reservation homes Along the Veterans Memorial Highway Skeletal wild horses stalking the open plain Golden shrubland into arid coniferous forest Littered with burn scars and lifeless obelisks The pointed horns of snow-sheeted mountains Volatile and bubbling with the anger Of ancient gods Read more…
For You Will you remember me? When your bones are aching and your skin droops in shaded dunes, And the memory of yesterday is but a blur, And the glimpse of tomorrow is a torturous allure. Will you recall, Our twilight hours touching infinity, Racing through thunderous heavens, Chasing Read more…
cavernous self core-coal from deepest of mines dug to power my being and fuel my mind. heart hollowing to flesh find into the cavernous self– gems of many kinds. the miner, brightened by time away from the sun soot-smile, ligament spun seek ore– it won’t outrun for the Read more…
Ballad of the Rising Thunder By Johnathan Essien I dare dash across the steps of the divine Heaven-sent and tumultuous in the sky But this terra-voltage race and riots in our souls It must escape to fulfill its goals I have seen the will of Azure carry on Read more…
And It Will Be Different Someone said something about this being the end, and that was when they all went quiet. Four indiscernible forms on the pitch-black beach. Each brought a towel because none of them liked the feeling of sand when it got too involved in their clothes. Each Read more…
(Portrait of Princess Elena Pavlovna Belosselsky-Belozersky can be found at the Georgia Museum) Servant-Princess Elena to Patrons Your grand pearls cannot fool mine eyes Your soft, supple lips upturned into your meek smile A shy, soft woman, fearful to deny Purified in white and a shoulderless style Read more…