Dillard and Woolf waxed elegiac over its immolation in a candle’s flame—overcome, I imagine, by the surrealism of the juxtaposition: a single, innocuous wick lit to guide the path of the writer’s words morphs into a luminous siren calling a foundering craft to its swift and fiery end. But for me, a writer with no […]
Silence Sounds of words unspoken Words unheard Words, words, words Won’t stop dropping pen tops Won’t stop jumping roadblocks Won’t stop chucking hard knocks And I can’t keep calling time fake I can’t sleep so I stay awake Thinking second belated Backwards ratings about past Relationships. I’ve got some frustrations. Let me tip my hat
What If Celebration Community Poem – Colorado Springs Compiled by Lindsay Deen and Taylor Johnson Ness This poem was compiled by the community at the 2017 What If Celebration by Poetry Heals. The words were hung upon a garland by those who passed by the booth on their way to the Portal. We’ve taken the
I wonder do you have any idea how you look and sound to normal people? Your braying and shrieking supposed to indicate sincerity, your pandering, your condescension, your invocations of The People, as if you knew any, your focus-tested, shopworn slogans, your Issues. Lead-poisoned children are not Issues. Shit gigs are not Issues. Collapsing bridges,
“Let there be Form” Pleaded Something That felt too much Apart, too distant And so the concentration began – A hunkering down Of gasses, a conviction A coolness, a slowing down of Molecules, Until there in the center Of the universe Came spinning gently This liquid blue orb. And how lovely she played The soliloquy,
Fish migration determines the success and prosperity of aquatic life. Before man-made dams, fish migrated only as far as natural barriers allowed. Fresh water fish migrate between their feeding and spawning regions. When fish cannot reach the spawning area due to natural or man-made obstacles, the species cannot carry on. Migrating fish produce necessary oxygen
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