imagine alternatives
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If there is to be no rule of law, perhaps there is to be no police state. If there is to be no police state, perhaps there will be no mass incarceration. If there are to be no police to call, perhaps there will be community reliance. Perhaps the community will be laid bare. Perhaps…
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May the child be at peace. May the child’s peace radiate to all in her grasp. May the child’s peace radiate to all whose grasp she is within. May the pedophile and coyote be at peace. May the child soldiers’ commander be at peace. May the commander’s arms dealer be at peace and the arms…
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Took ten years to publish my poem in the form of ten poems, but I love the way Sediments Literary Arts Journal did it, by dispersing the parts throughout their Happy Holidays issue: https://sedimentslit.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/happy_holidays.pdf
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Clade Song, a fun multimedia literary mag with clicks to animal sounds, published “At Willow Point” and “Panes of rain” this summer.
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Again, we welcome your submissions of poetry to Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects on the themes evoked by Joanna Macy and colleagues’ Work That Reconnects: gratitude for Earth and the ecological/social justice movement, The Great Turning, honoring our pain for the world, deep time (thinking like a mountain) or the Fourth…
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The squirrel plants the nutof the tree it most loves.The human plants the corn. The mouse stuffs milkweed tuftsinto its nest and surrounds the seedswith pee and turds.The human fracks gas and fertilizes the corn. The tree drops leaves to nourish its own roots.The spider makes a web of its own body.The human makes a…
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The second issue of Deep Times is out at the Work that Reconnects Network website. You’ll find some lovely poems for the Great Turning, including my “Welcome to the Anthropocene, era of errors” on p. 41.
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“Dough” was published in S/tick Issue 3.2, p. 16. Read it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38119451/Issue%203.2.pdf.
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“May the child be at peace” published Jan. 3 by Narrative Northeast: http://www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=3984.
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The stripes are still there but the stars are gone. The ink bleached into the white background without a trace. The red is still there but the blue is gone. “God bless” is, “America” gone.