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Poem: A two part ocean song

By: Rishitha Shetty He stands with one leg, on the…………ocean’s edge and the other …………on the mountain top. Woman, man, beast or God- walk below my thigh, he says. His head, cushioned in clouds; his eyelids, a shroud on the fires…

Poem: Kairu

By: Rishitha Shetty She’s ten years in limbs and…….seventeen in parenthesis. Kairu scratches the velvet of the ground, with teeth knitted in the jute of a brown-pink mouth, stretched to reach the farthest corner of the face and touch- the curve…

Poem: Voices of the Dead

By: Gary Beck I think about our wounded land crushed by overwhelming burdens and wish that voices from the past could counsel us in time of need. But then I wake and remember our paucity of leadership and wonder if…

Poem: Recruit

By: Gary Beck I considered the army to escape the confines of a ravaged city, cowering in despair from loss of industry. My hope for a good job evaporated quickly and I was sick of listening to the old guys…

Poem: For Whom We Mourn

By: Gary Beck Too many children die premature deaths at the merciless hands of aberrant caretakers, mothers, boy friends, fathers, uncles, combining to extinguish the brief existence of helpless victims, murderously betrayed by their protectors.

Poem: Nameless Villain

By: Linda M Crate you think that you’re the cat’s meow, but you are not hak’s strong yona just a nameless forgotten girl rude and spoiled and entitled marching through making demands no one even hears; you reach for me…