Wool jacket fastened halfway up, buttons catching the light like June Bugs Drawing close, he whispers like a branch, one leaf rubbing another Home comes through in the ripples in the lake as the cool wind brings me back Summer in Razliv with the founder, the radical, the will-be revolutionary He speaks words like…
Tag: poetry
Radical Romance: For Europeans Who Actually Killed Nazis/ Frank Terry
Lots of my friends/ say they are/ Anarchists/ but they do not/ own guns/ or know how to/ properly/ insert an IV/ or clean and/ stitch a wound.
Radical Romance: Sweet Black Angel/ Kai Harris
Dedicated to activist, scholar, writer, and FBI’s Most Wanted, Angela Davis
Radical Romance: Two Poems/ Barrett Warner
Sleeping with Maduro,
Drinking Alone with Ernesto Cardenal
Radical Romance: Dear Emma Goldman/ A. Jancewicz
My front garden will be full of daffodils. I will hang a black flag from the porch. You could read Kropotkin out loud to the children before bed. No matter my exhortations, they still ask for princes.
Radical Romance: Red/ John Leo
“Karl Marx… had in mind Texas.” – Saul Padover
Hold the Fort/ Jen Fitzgerald
Hold the fort For we are coming… I.W.W. Battle Song Mallet men of manifest destiny keep time; women waulking tweed keep time; rhythmic stomps, knocks of cloth on plank; a song; if we still raised our voices like progeny; like singing lineage; the fluid life of memory; inheritance; in time; with time; in step; […]
Two Poems/ Isaac Mason
Ralston Crawford Photographs the Negroes of Dryades St. c. 1950 What most interested him was the play of light on their dark skin: a shine or patina, a field upon the field. At the Dew Drop Inn, the San Jacinto Social Club, the dancers and musicians, posed engaging problems of framing and composition. In […]
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