poem
-
A reminder that all this is not new: Juan Felipe Hererra’s poem about the gulf of Mexican American. Everyday We Get More Illegal
-
Last chance to buy Homebound Publications’s issue of Preliminary Visions–it is going out of print. But it is still in some bookstores and I have a small stack of them you can buy from me directly.
-
As peace pilgrims are walking together again, like the Pilgrimage for Peace, “Encircling Earth, the center of our gravity” is being republished. Find the updated poem at the lovely literary online journal, The Dewdrop here: https://thedewdrop.org/2024/02/25/karina-lutz-encircling-earth-the-center-of-our-gravity/. May all beings know peace.
-
Seeing the anguish on both sides of war, anger turns to futility and compassion turns to constructive action. Here’s a diptych of poems on that theme, published this week in the RavensPerch: “How to Read a Poem about War/How to Hear a Poem in War” That was inspired by Joy Harjo’s “How to Write a…
-
I. How to read a poem about war after Joy Harjo’s for “How to Write a Poem in a Time of War” It is not the news. Must approach like a cat: when ready. Must arm one’s armchair with handkerchiefs, soft arms for pounding. Heart must be ready to pound: open like a gate, not…
-
Dependently coarising: body and mind. Independently falling apart: two halves of a coconut roll away from each other. The machete hovers and withdraws. The match burned out. Or did the flame burn through the match? What is left? Everything, some as light (some as ash) across the universe. previously published in Tulane Review, 3/24/15, and…
-
I. Standing, feet naked to the earth. Walking, the sensation of flow from heel along the outer edge of sole to outer ball, inner ball, the rhythm of it. Like the sleek shifting weight of a running cougar: the ripple and the grace in the movement. Touching ground, bending knee, taking weight, pushing off, finding…
-
Do astronomers not name the stars behind the stars, the ones they can’t see? Do they believe an eclipse can actually block light, that even a source of light may be too solid to let light through? No, I’ve heard, they can see what’s hidden, as light bends like water around river rock. Electromagnetic radiation…
-
It’s not just his shoes. Here are his skates.Filling them means putting on the old steel-toed bootsthe night before, grabbing a shovel, andheading down to the pond to clear snow off the ice.If it’s going to be cold enough overnightyou can use that snow to dam the out-streamwith a berm just high enoughto let…
-
After a day of trailing my mother from house to house or along the beach gathering signatures on petitions, our table conversation would start something like this: What if America had not fought in World War II? How else can you stop an aggressor like Hitler but with war? Isn’t peace without justice just another…