Wind
rolls into a soda can
rattles against Cedars
trees sway breezes
A gust throws sky into clouds
blows branches out of shadowboxed walls [Read more…]
Wind
rolls into a soda can
rattles against Cedars
trees sway breezes
A gust throws sky into clouds
blows branches out of shadowboxed walls [Read more…]
At a place called Cavo Greco
waves break inside rocks
sun foams from the mouths of caves
messengers are mistaken for their songs [Read more…]
Before human beings
followed the snake
winding through dry riverbed
stars were clocks
Before human beings
traced the calligraphy of butterflies
up hillsides ordained as villages
hours tolled
prayers [Read more…]
You wilted
before the severely pruned branches
returned
before throbbing cuts healed
In earlier seasons
I wondered why anyone would plant a tree
they could not let grow? [Read more…]
The shattered skull of Amathus
buzzes with invaders
from unexcavated countries
Visitors comb
temple splinters
whose gods have been sold
to the sirens of human immortality. [Read more…]
DRAWN
I’m drawn
to divided cities
where roads end in amputations
town squares cleaved
lives bifurcated
Walk into walls
that ache with separation
anxiety oozing through bricks [Read more…]
by Source
Vivian Rothstein / Capital & Main
It’s a small book that can fit into your pocket or purse, and you can read its 126 pages in under an hour. A perfect size for a guidebook that you can pull out on a moment’s notice.
Notably, this book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, is about the rise of totalitarianism and what ordinary people can do to stand in its way. [Read more…]
Didn’t know
I arrived
because I never left Olympus
No need for words
when the mouth is full of baclava from Damascus
dried apricots and cinnamon
aged in oak casks [Read more…]
by At Large
By Craig VanDierendonck
100 days and what success do we see?
Only to his pocketbook, with branding for free.
100 days and we assess the damages.
Yes, we will need the Mother Of All Bandages.
100 days of bluster, and brazen lies,
With a dozen or two links with Russian spies. [Read more…]
The dead
rattle windows
open doors
lie down next to the residents of Paphos [Read more…]
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