Tag: Literature
Resurrection
A Prose Poem Resurrection The bird had been broken—shot through by a huntress with a cavernous mouth and teeth like stalactites and from its depths was heard a ...
Shameless Gestures
A Short Poem Shameless Gestures You come only when I call with this solitary voice– you listen– only when these bare-toothed baubles, brimming with promise both...
Between Two Seas
A Short Poem Between Two Seas Look upon the young faces, and see a springtide that lasts forever. Look upon the old faces, and see the dead on graves’ precipice...
Do You Hear Them?
A Short Poem Uncommon Heart I first saw my heart hanging in the sky and cried, “Share your secrets, Uncommon Heart.” I was born that day yet those w...
Was It Last Night or a Life Ago?
A Poem Was It Last Night or a Life Ago? Was it last night or a life ago? When I was an old, frightened Pharaoh turning in hapless circles like a wounded ape— my...
Conversation with a Dog
A Short Poem Conversation with a Dog Me: Melancholy creature whose master is man, we are none without our overlords. Let us weep—you and I together— for our inh...