Tears of My Ancestors | James Gregory Paul Sr.

“Discofoot” (2016), Ballet de Lorraine, by Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley. Photo © Laurent Philippe I take the title Instantly Forever a couple of ways. Instantly is forever. Forever is an instant. I can reformulate that as I might in my philosophical cups: I never step into the same river twice; everything, including self, flows….

Layaway After offices are flushed, we workers go home or to a nearby bar, museum, or movie house that fills the blanks left decades ago, last year, or yesterday. A wind kicks up again, displacing our own weight, edging purple between red and gold on a small pad. She draws a man who looks down…

Those who cravenly succumb To acceptance of wrongness Are they who ignobly uphold The scales of injustice The post Scales of Injustice | Camille Rose Castillo appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

Youth sits hiding at the back of the room while the lesson is going on, festering in complacency a fly buzzes listlessly while two girls write an erotic reinterpretation of the scene, batting an absence of lashes at each other, faces curled in smiles sneaking in a baseball, the youth sits, meticulously unstitching it, half-listening…

We both know it: truth is to be shouted and suffered and any torment is exiguous if it frees us later. I agree with you Ana María Campos never shall the evil prevail The post Ana María Campos | Alberto Quero appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online