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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Manzanar

September 3, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Origami cranes at Manzanar internment camp

10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s

Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Backfire

August 27, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

View of sky through pine trees

Ashes on car windows
Big Sur is burning

Roads closed
evacuation imminent

Trapped
in the apocalyptic
centrifuge of helicopter blades
slashing
fire retardant sun   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Maypole

August 13, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Maypole

In Germany
love
decorates windows
with ribbons and branches

Town squares resurrect Spring
with Maypoles:

A fertility rite
older than written words.   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Walking Among Ancestors

August 6, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Screenshot from GeoPoetic Spaces: Walking Among Ancestors

I am vanishing with Lake Hodges

Five years of drought and fire
melts water into clouds
grinds dirt into dust
blows tracks from trails   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Appropriate Withdrawal

July 30, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Field of purple tulips

Fatigue
tackles the fittest flowers

Blossoms
turn inward

Petals fold
compress
color
into perfume   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Remind Me

July 23, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Sillhouette of man in hat holding a flashlight

Remind me
it’s a larger room
than the beam of light
exposes

Remind me
who is behind the lamp
what interest they gain
when I forget to look   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Angry White Man In My Mirror

July 16, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Still from Geo-Poetic Spaces YouTube video: Angry White Man In My Mirror

Angry white men
make my pale skin crawl
taking ugly mug shots
under shrouds
inciting walls
burning their black savior’s cross   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Development

July 9, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Wood frame house under construction set against rocky hillside

A sign is posted
mountains vanish into clouds
billowing houses
  [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Brexit

July 2, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Large group of Syrian refugees walking through the street

Goodbye Great Britain
you unchained the bulldog on yourself
never before in the history of Empires
has so much been owed to so few

Goodbye Great Britain
“Bottoms up,” to glories past:
armadas sunk
invasions thwarted   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Empty Bench

June 25, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Riverside scene with empty bench

An empty bench
listening waves
meditating trees
contemplating river

An invitation
to pause
streaming video   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Report

June 18, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Roadside sign for gated and private community

It’s time to leave
when guns grow on trees
orange blossoms cut down

Kiss the dream good night
alarms set
locked in gated housing   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Pilgrimage to RAF Brüggen

June 11, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Old bunkers along road at RAF Brüggen, Germany

I had to fly to RAF Brüggen
to find an olive branch
for the country of my birth
talking itself to death

I had to travel to Germany
to see runways
outflanked by forest
munitions planted
in fortified bunkers frozen by Cold War
carpet bombed by meadows   [Read more…]

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