Guest Poetry
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Present | Sonia Sanchez
This woman vomiting her hunger over the world this melancholy woman forgotten before memory came this yellow movement bursting forth like coltrane’s melodies all mouth buttocks moving like palm tress, this honeycoatedalabamianwoman raining rhythm to blue/black/smiles this yellow woman carrying beneath her breasts pleasures without tongues this woman whose body waves desert patterns, this woman… Continue reading
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Alone | Maya Angelou
Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.There… Continue reading
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If You Forget Me | Pablo Neruda
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that… Continue reading
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Guest Feature: Waiting for Someone – Lamar Jorden
“Somewhere In the Northwest region of Seattle Washington There’s a homeless man, armed with a beer can Trying to drink away war memories Waiting for someone Self-less enough to lend him an ear He sits on the side of a Pizzeria on the corner of Queen Ann and Mercer In a chair, they probably kick… Continue reading
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