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poetry

San Diego Zoo.

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by James Croal Jackson.

after our red leash
became frantic

unsure of what grip
the wilderness had

or which eyeline
to focus on

oh aquamarine jewels
oh black-silk storks

name the artist
who decided traffic

was a logjam
in their brain

all you must do
(golden hour brown

on the frizz
of your hair)

is unclench
your fist

and follow
the leopard

Kitten Dreams.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. Feel your whiskers! The garden calls, for it will soon be night. The time has come to breach the door and scuttle out of sight. No sound will vex the silence but the calling of a loon, as, on soft paws, we creep beside the shadows of the moon. Beside an […]

Those Wild Animals Our Dreams.

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by JW James. moving slowly through the forests maybe you only get a glimpse the fox of nowhere the foxes of nothing your sensual psyche stretches across the landscape you are a deep hidden lake of everything when you drop down when you lift the skies there is no turning back and nightblack-feathered raven blocks […]

A Holding Undone.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli. So, we speak of the past and the passed in whispers for their sake and our own; swing open the hinges of our chests offer flight to memory, aghast, we release these semiprecious stones. We speak well of the passed and the past afraid to let on when we feel pissed, […]

Alternate.

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by JW James. city of birds your open mind pulsing angels in the middle of forgotten avenues flocks of birds flying in spurs pearls raining down the strings of the cello of convalescence when we were confirmed and took saints’ names in that city we were told to choose a martyr our souls winging their […]

Childhood Backyard.

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by James Croal Jackson. Oblivious to the approaching hard- ships of the road, the sleeping leaves with years of nourishment wake with you in your mom’s backyard, under dark sky and pine boughs. Those autumn days the wind blew, singing, but remembering the song has become too loud. Place your palm against the bark to […]

Parvin E’tesami, an Iconic Female Iranian Poet.

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by Brian Griffith and Zhinia Noorian Parvin E’tesami (1907–1941) was a major female poet of the early twentieth century, whose art brought unprecedented change in the world of Persian literature. She published her first several poems in Bahar (Spring) magazine at age 13, and on graduating from secondary school in 1924, gave a speech denouncing […]

Lake Urmia.

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by David Selzer. In Old Persian, language of the Shah of Shahs, Darius the Great, whose inscriptions extend from Persepolis to Egypt, and from Romania to Bahrain, this salt lake, greater than the Dead Sea, was called Chichast, ‘Glittering’ – sunlight on the undulating lapidary of myriads of silver particulates. Urmia – Assyrian Aramaic for […]