Here are a few frog facts to ponder before my poem. Frogs are considered highly endangered with over 7000 species. Humans are all from one species, but we have an estimated 5000 human ethnic groups which are defined primarily by cultural practices. What we would consider to be the “modern […]
You can’t audit a course in the skoo of Hard Knocks…. Povertyskola The unhoused, who are said to live on the margins of our society, are in front of our eyes every day we walk or drive down our streets if we look. Too many complain about the view, applaud people’s […]
word time how old is your language he asks and pauses for answers that will not come to the tongue my language of memories is buried in bone marrow spilling out in blood rich with copper salt and ancestor breath my language of touch was inherited from the first ones […]
“I Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth” Assata Shakur Assata Shakur (nee JoAnne Chesimard) was only 26 and a Member of the Black Liberation Army when she escaped to Cuba after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state law officer. She always asserted that […]
Some say that deaths come in threes. Some even breathe a sigh of relief when the third notice comes, believing some respite is near. An artist friend of mine spoke of three deaths she had experienced, grouped together, impossibly close in all ways, father, uncle, brother. Three heartaches, three losses. […]
Poets’ voices are ringing out around the globe calling for people to see the truth of the genocide of Palestinians and the barbarism of the assault. Asking for reason and humaneness to be put in front. The esteemed poet laureate of Berkely, California, Rafael Jesús Gonzalez, whose work I love, […]
Over the last few weeks, I have heard to many people saying that the issue of Palestine is so complicated. I have had people think I am heartless because I was not tearing my hair out over the (false) reports of beheaded babies. What is complicated about occupation? What is […]
america, australia, palestine land, settlers, and genocide: america, australia and palestine 1. and the land was covered with trees pine to oak, maple to beech to redwoods stretching upwards for thousands of years and the first peoples were the only ones there to harvest the land’s bounty they nursed reeds […]
child hands and legs and memory do you remember holding your small child hand up to your father’s large comforting hand amazed at its size compared to your vine thin fingers? do you remember making fingers and palms Into church and steeple and then opening to see all the people? […]
I entered Grace cathedral on Saturday with its three-story high arched Anglican ceilings, its neon lit Jacob’s ladder, “Jacob’s Dream A Luminous Path” created by Grace Cathedral 2016 Artists’ in Residence, Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell along with traditional stained-glass windows and saint depictions, to sit in the quiet […]
