Russian Spat
London’s lost its manners
Crimean confrontation
The U.K. plays it down
Russia cranks it up
Britain
prepared to sail
Moscow
turbining water warplanes
shots fired
—a warning!
more exercises
calisthenics… Read more
Ethan Cunningham
France & Germany Talk Russia
E. U. talks
about talking
to Russia
Frank & Germ
push dialogue
to defend their interests
the Brussels strategy
for continental Europe
reactive logic
don’t fly with Ivan’s Russ
new … Read more
The Pollen Of Life
In the darkness of the night,
a delicate butterfly
sprinkled the pollen of life,
fragile yet sublime,
A celebration took place somewhere
Someone mourned the … Read more
Still, I Rise
Still, I rise above the hot zones
that spread across America, like the heatwave
in the eighties when thirty-two deaths a day
from an act of God was a national … Read more
Old Growth
There is an emptiness to slender trees from which the layer of leaves
They’ve shed has only begun to melt into the undergrowth
Their youth … Read more
The Inheritance
Maybe it was in the genes Banneker inherited
from his ancestors, the Dogon, who, while the houses
of Lancaster and York ravaged the English countryside,
migrated to a southern bend … Read more
RAP RAP RAP
How many Congressional Republicans proved willing
to treat democracy like a pinata?
Nearly 200 flailed recklessly,
admits their own party’s Accountability Project (RAP)
grading efforts that upheld or weakened democracy.… Read more
Bearing Witness: An Open Letter to Darnella Frazier
“Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction
Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an … Read more
A Conscience Tracker
The wait is over!
Now we can track
the items that we lose,
Looks like the technology is not new
and some are already … Read more
A Twisted Relationship
The two twisted friends
that have ruled over humans,
Shortening the distance between
known and unknown,
Blurring the line between
rationality and irrationality,
Faith and fear
took a dip in … Read more
Is There Any Light?
Eyes skimmed through
the trending searches on Google
Oh, another one!
May their souls rest in peace
The wise brain started speculating
Who was he?
Black or White,
Asian, American, or … Read more
“Boulder feels like a bubble. And the bubble burst.” — Ryan Borowski, Boulder mass shooting survivor
When I first arrived in Boulder
I remember heading to the Deeter’s
boarding house—that was
almost sixty years ago,
on the “hill” as it was called,
an eager student looking… Read more
I Touched You Once
I touched you once
In a moment that came in the afternoon of a day
Almost 100,000 years ago
Your breath felt in the wind … Read more
Let’s Address Our Aging Infrastructure, Man
The bridge to platitudes is girded by mass shootings,
paved with cancer and Covid, bolted with the alloy-
thoughts ‘n prayers we shorten to TP and roll-out
on comment feeds … Read more