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Category: Poetry

Today’s Sermon

November 12, 2024November 18, 2024 Anne Leigh Parrish

Hold still while I rape you Set you on fire Slap you down Don’t move Or dream No starlight for you Receive me whenever I must Relieve my rage and lust Your body belongs to me And your soul belongs to god You own nothing Not even the dirt on Read more

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IN NUMBERS GREAT

November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 Katherine West

Last night I had a dream I flew A flying fish, I leapt from fountains, from sacred pools long and blue. I Dreamt I hung, then plunged as from a mountain. From somewhere there was singing. From somewhere there were birds. From somewhere there was ringing. From somewhere a flight Read more

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Melting

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 Doug Hoekstra

Dusk covers the interstate Beyond the plate glass window Semi-trailer trucks accelerate and roar Driving over daylight savings time The distant sound of comfort I remember.  Engines fade On the stairway, turning keys Amber scents and shadows Lost touch, tracing soft and supple To my left and to my right Read more

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I’ll Teach You

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024 Anne Leigh Parrish

Sorrow sings to men who sleep with guns Time erodes land to dust and bodies to bone Sky loses color, rivers run black How can masculinity survive? Who says it has to? My ovaries are not your mistress My hands are not your maid If you want to preach natural Read more

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The Undeserving

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 Judith Staff

Survive; Survivor; Survived. What does it mean? Is it what they survived? Or what we survived? What I survived? That’s definable – the ‘what’; Danger, violence, terror. The suffocating distress of it. But what does surviving look like? Is it still being alive? Is it still carrying on? Is it Read more

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A MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 Katherine West

At breakfast, you tell me the world cannot be held with words—it must be shaped like a cave painting that accepts its life as a slice of the whole.  Words are ambitious, you say, they imagine they can contain whatever I yearn to contain.  Words are a beautiful bit in Read more

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The Fallen Down Forest

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 Anne Leigh Parrish

Leaves go Sightlines clear This is winter’s remark Leaning trees Crazy cross-hatch, we Rail against each other Now things are laid bare and Propped up Out of love’s long habit The strife will quiet as darkness Bears down Leave it until spring, the trees will Hide their torn ground, too Read more

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THE FALL

September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 Katherine West

There is a myth about the sun happy in her everywhere her gifts of growth and warmth of beauty-making light But someone insults her (some lover of the dark) so she flees to the cave from whence she came turns her face to the chill, unliving wall He follows, of Read more

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