By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Beneath heaven’s open eye
a mother cradles her dying son
Ashes of sun snow
rain on exposed statue
eroding definition
identity … [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Still Life of a Street
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Treetops crack open
Teardrops of yoke dripping light
Slowing streets’ scramble [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Bebelplatz, Berlin
(Where Students Burned 20,000 Books Banned by the Nazis)
Hands frozen together
at midnight in Bebelplatz, Berlin
Ink shadows
spilling
stones worn
Without warning
a window opens
sun is punctuating blind pages
cloud covers
Faces
thumbing through melting sheets of glass
seeing the empty shelves of ourselves [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Meditating Koi
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Waterfall of rocks
Slipping into moss rippling
Through sun-clouding koi [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Seven Poems Learned As A Stay-At-Home Father
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Eight minutes
for sunlight to kiss earth
An unborn child’s love
reaching her father
before hands touch
the clock face of birth
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Amerika
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Amerika
is a good idea
that can’t live up to itself
looks better on the page
than in streets
Amerika
promises what it can’t deliver
takes from many
gives to few
is more muscle
than grey matter… [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Flags
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Flags
Up here
earth is one body
Then comes the declaration
slashing breath
Sound of shells
splitting
flesh
spilling
blood
scratching imaginary lines
between grains of sand [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Burn Area
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Burn Area
Why does it take fire
to knock down flames?
Peeling back undergrowth
exposing artifacts
tossed from windows
on reckless drives off roads? [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Touch
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Non-indigenously
falling out of trunks
Climbing onto windows
swimming with dolphins
Crossing sidewalks
knocking on garage doors
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Legend of Hodgee
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Look for me
where mountains are rising
stone circle sun
Dammed river
running beneath burned Lake
The legendary monster
Hodgee
snaking through thirsty trees trunks: [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Santa Ana’s Return
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Santa Ana returns
shooting Bougainville into air
galloping through streets
storming houses … [Read more…]
Poem of the Day: “The End of Tracks (One Poet’s Journey Across America by Rail)” by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Taking trains
across country
looking through myself in windows
sky-scraping clouds rolling past
wheeling clocks
ticking off time
engineers can’t keep
I am many stations of being
departing arriving
shut down boarded up
erupting main streets in small towns [Read more…]
