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…in just a few days the rumor spread of the rooms emptied of words and filled with screams. Swollen eyes. — By Emilio Zucchi, Translated by Beppe Cavatorta and Brenna Ward. I’m sitting outside on a cool mid-November evening the day after the next violence resting by a little fire I’ve started smoke mostly an…
Bad Dream | Danny Faragher
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Paper | Jenny Middleton
leaves paper the sky; spreading hands shielding the blaze of a sultry day from the tinder box crumble threading our journey through the trees as pages turning diary like to once before when youth’s lantern faces gleaming we shone with song more deliciously ardent than the apple buds’ danced imaginings. the circle full, the trunks…
Jugular | Camille Clark
At our center a root, a life supply, We have our fantastic root system Keeps us supplied, loving, and moving. The post Jugular | Camille Clark appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
“The Power of the Fragile”: When Jocasta says “no” quid Oedipus? [By Tracy Danison]
“The Power of the Fragile” by Mohamed Toukabri. Photo © Christian Tandberg The last time I saw my mother she was in a hospice bed, barely alive; I can’t remember the year. I grabbed her hand, muttered “Bye, Ma”, left the room, drove to the airport. The last, and perhaps only, time I remember my…