“Good Hunting" and "The Funny Left" by Frank Thomas Rosen
FEBRUARY 2025
Hunting for Good
Once again
The girl dangled
Her crucifix
Into the moonlight
Bullseye
Ripples
The Rio Grande
Her bones
Contracted
Razor wire
The land of the free
Handcuffed
Minor
Abrasions
Her eyes now
Extinguished
In night scopes
Of American Christians
Hunting for good
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The Funny Left
The morning after
Fascism
Selections will be
Final
Finger points
At the belly
Solutions
Eat into you
All holes in one
I for myself
Played golf
What human
Remains
Stuck in reverse
Ran a stop sign
I picked up
My bloody club
For Brother Trump
- FTR
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1/25/2025
Frank Thomas Rosen grew up in East Germany and moved to the United States in 1997. He taught English at colleges and universities in Ohio for over ten years before becoming a registered nurse (RN) and nurse practitioner (FNP) in northeast Ohio. His latest collection – auschwitz of the digital age and other poems (new cognitive poetry) – was published by Cherry Castle Publishing in 2019. Rosen’s poems have appeared in Ambit, Dongola, The American Journal of Poetry, Belt Magazine, and many regional and international anthologies. In his writing, Rosen addresses social injustice, cross-cultural struggle, and environmental challenges.
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