By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
No trains
arrive Gate 17 Grunewald Station
A red and white gate flung open
exposes splattered stones
Nameless platform
Of dates, places, numbers
Sorrow is a spike
that crumbles buildings … [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Coming Back to Germany
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
I come back to Germany
because of flower boxes on balconies
bread baked fresh mornings
dogs traveling on trains
I come back to Germany
because she still reads newspapers
awakens with church bells
closes up shop on Sundays … [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Assembling Lawns
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Brick by brick workers
Assembled lawns light showers
Rubbing away lines
[Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Desensitized
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Eventually
Nobody heard the freeway
Running (Humming) (Drumming) Through backyards [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Evacuations
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
When flashing lights
pound on soundly sleeping doors
ordering evacuations five minutes
to gather a few items
from a lifetime of belongings … [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Neue Wache, Germany’s Tomb to the Unknown Victims of War
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: 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…]
