"Summer in Gaza" by Lynn White
Summer in Gaza In the rain of the rockets there’s no water. Metal rain. In the rain of the rockets there’s no sunshine. Smoke rain. Black...
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 252 min read
"Kufr Qa’ra, Palestine" by Alex Vartan Gubbins
Kufr Qa’ra, Palestine I recall the bus ride from Jerusalem. On the phone in Arabic. Soldiers in uniform look at me. I switch to English....
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 251 min read
"War goes retro" by Bill Marable
War goes retro Beep, beep, beep Pager alert summons Them to look Cloak and Dagger “Sleeper Cells” Flash Bam Lights blue, orange,...
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 252 min read
"The Last Time My Mother Signed her Name" and "The Last Week My Mother Breathed" by CLS Sandoval
The Last Time My Mother Signed Her Name we had already settled it all promised Mom that she wouldn’t have to think about money again ...
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 252 min read
“The Ostrich Speaks,” and "Anti-Ode for a Song Sparrow" by Jona Colson
The Ostrich Speaks Aren’t you jealous of my vertebrae, my sassy eye, and feather boa? My beak can caress or destroy the ripe plum in your...
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 251 min read
"My Sister Solving Puzzles" by Bonita Lee Penn
My Sister Solving Puzzles Her Alzheimer's & Dementia Journey Her brain runs counterclockwise Confused Memory Disappears Re-appears ...
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cherrycastlepublis
Oct 251 min read
"Fishing" by Betsy Mars
Fishing Tiny black figures peer down from the dark dream cloud, cast a line to my dry bed I can climb. Sleep woos, eyes close again; I...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 302 min read
"Were We Our Names" and "AL-JABR" by Dahlia Aguilar
Were We Our Names I would be the favorite gardening flower Mexica planted along the aqueducts My father, king of the world wise defender...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 303 min read
La Poesía de Jane Alberdeston Coralin
Loud Prophecies (for Juan Dalmau) I. The Brochure This morning, the Gulf gas station whispers its way through the cinnamon of someone’s...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 302 min read
The Poetry of Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman
Presidential Candidate Attire: A Skinny an angry dance of a man, slick oily messiness. entitled slick. mediocrity drenched in slick. an...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 301 min read
"In the Absence of Breath" by Maudie Bryant
In the Absence of Breath I cradle the space where memories drift. Faint into near syncope. Faint onto hard ground. Faint where I cradle...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 302 min read
"The Whitestone Bridge" by Peter Mladinic
The Whitestone Bridge Stuck in traffic on the Cross Bronx, fingers drumming the steering wheel in my compact Caddy SUV, my gripes are...
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cherrycastlepublis
Aug 301 min read
"boast of quietness" by Debasis Mukhopadhyay
boast of quietness how sweetly i'm a consolation bursts of merlot clouds lapping against the stillness of i miss you between your...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jul 153 min read
Kenneth Carroll | Genocide Anonymous | Odes to Reuben Jackson
Reuben in Palestine 3/24/2024 We sit in the Sunday sun of the Arts Walk, It is laughter & smiles that bloom between Sami’s multi-tongued...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jul 152 min read
The Poetry of Robert Michael Oliver
Prison Brickyard I follow my brother to the brickyard through pastures of Holsteins grazing beneath the tulip poplars as turkey buzzards...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jul 152 min read
Poetry in Collaboration | Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller
Home I go home with those birds that have left the nest. I am comforted by the hands of trees. The tree with surface roots looks like a...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jul 152 min read
The Poetry of Ian Ganassi
And They Make It Sound So Easy I’d rather gather ‘round the campfire, Join the campfire girls. They make great cheese. And that’s the way...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jul 152 min read
The Poetry of Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao)
Winter In its first moments, a gust of wind, my grandfather’s long johns, pockmarked, a crow swims through my dreams, calls my name with...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jun 191 min read
"White Folks Walk Their Dogs" by Truth Thomas
White Folks Walk Their Dogs (after Gil Scott Heron) Gentrification done bit my brother Phil As White folks walk their dogs His property...
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cherrycastlepublis
Jun 181 min read
"Drinking Game" by Laura Shovan
Drinking Game Is your glass full? Take a shot for Be'eri, Rafah. Drink for every life lost, for your glass is full. Take a shot. 6/15/2024...
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