For Miss Shirley LeFlore

Poetry & ProseKevin PowellMay 21, 2019Shirley LeFlore, Kevin Powell, poem, poetry, poet laureate, St. Louis

"Never mind what is not" by Leslie Browne

Poetry & ProseLeslie BrowneApril 3, 2019Leslie Browne, poem, Poetry

Dear Poem

Poetry & ProseDavid JamesMarch 4, 2019David James, Poetry, poem

What's the Harm?

I don’t delete those numbers although

they’re dead, I’ve been told,

those persons, not numbers.

Poetry & ProseRajnish MishraJanuary 14, 2019What's the Harm, Rajnish Mishra, poetry, poem, a gathering of the tribes

Down to Bone

What would it be like to edit down

a poem into its brittle bones

down to the last ash

on a burning log

down to thin veins

on a frozen leaf

twigs on an icy night

shivering in the dark gray

solstice sky

down to breath

or the last

kiss

before sleep?

Poetry & ProseTribesOctober 25, 2018Carla Schick, Down to Bone, Steve Cannon, A Gathering of the Tribes, poem, poetry

An urgent call in the second life

red rays of the unknown sun came down to my new window
warmly shiver touched me, made me laugh as a fresh baby
I decided to think about the source of these unknown rays
but, suddenly a kind of musical sound covered my ears
the sound did not seem like any earthen sound I ever heard
it was a mix of waves dancers and creation of colorful bird
it was like a smell of honey and the secrets of gold

For Laura Isabel Feldman

I want to carry in my womb

The bodies of the dead women

Killed by the dictatorship

My womb

Full of old pictures with their serrated sides

Full of vaporous language

Full of gardens in child’s mind

My womb will grow like a giant piñata

So full of communists

And you'll fear them all

Poetry & ProseTribesOctober 16, 2018Laura Isabel Feldman, poem, Eline Marx, a gathering of the tribes, Steve Cannon

ON WITH THE SHOW

for J.D. Rage

I pick up a Xeroxed flyer
for a show by someone I know slightly.
Her photo shows her in leather, chains, sunglasses,
with a mass of black hair.
And I think, This is where
I want to take a woman for a date.