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Covid-19
Who am I today?
Grateful
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Will not rest
White Privilege
No one noticed
If only
Despite

Sep 1, 2020

Look for the Silver Lining

By Nancy Levinson — even if it’s but a glint a splash of rainbow painted on a window a DIY covid pinata you can kill with a stick

Aug 31, 2020

Liberate Minnesota!

By Christian Garduno — Disturbance, uprising, underserved, underprivileged rebellion, riot, disadvantaged, at-risk youth, eruption, melee

Aug 29, 2020

Walking Our Way

By Teresa McLamb Blackmon — She slipped in the door and did her job quietly. If she felt she didn’t belong there, she was wrong.

Aug 26, 2020

Our Words Matter

By Jennifer A. Minotti, Editor-in-Chief — Please do not get caught up in the rhetoric or media sensationalism that continues to divide us.

Aug 25, 2020

Moving On

By Stephen E. Mead — I imagined perfect goodness an empty room completely one color. There anyone would be welcome.

Aug 22, 2020

Ask Me, Don't Tell Me

By Terri Lee — Ask me…Don’t tell me who I am. Don’t tell me which type of person you think I am. Don’t tell me what kind of experience I

Aug 19, 2020

My Wife Died

By Dane Ince — During Covid 19, My wife died, Cats sat on my lap, Purring, I went to AA in Australia, I read poetry in Berlin

Aug 18, 2020

Your Paper Bag

By Thomas Elson — You’ve heard that scream and those words for weeks, but never once have you seen who cries out.

Aug 17, 2020

Helping Hand

By Michele Sorensen — In these days and times, with so much sadness and fear going around, I like to take a few minutes every day

Aug 16, 2020

Both are True

By Matthew Miller — The maple is a green torch this morning, cardinal washing his beak in my coffee.

Aug 15, 2020

Falling

By Anita Kestin — Yesterday, it was the first time in my life that I fell at a time when I was not running fast. In fact, this time

Aug 13, 2020

Dreams

By Broeck Wahl Blumberg — In the distance, I can see and hear my people. All of them—mother, father, friends, my beloved deceased

Aug 12, 2020

Ruh se Roobaroo

By S. Rupsha Mitra — Allow the exterior voices whizz past like parallax. Listen, deep within a rhythm plays – slowly

Aug 7, 2020

Masked Men

By Robert Knox — Those without masks are the least honest. You see them, pushing their way to the front

Aug 6, 2020

Loneliness

By Ojo Olumide Emmanuel — I lost my first tooth when I first learned how to stretch my cheeks in smiles & laughter.

Aug 3, 2020

Myself, Again

By Maureen Sullivan Keleher — I am my mother. I am not my mother. I want to keep everyone happy. I want to speak up and

Jul 31, 2020

Deep South

Theresa C. Gaynord — In our world of foldout maps, we spread out our gypsy fingers letting them roam free all over the globe.

Jul 30, 2020

Refuge of My Skin

By Kate LaDew — She has seen me, through and through, another woman living barely 12 feet from her,

Jul 26, 2020

I Don’t Like Needles

By Caroline Lodge — We laugh behind our masks and reach out with our sanitized hands. Warmth and

Jul 25, 2020

Dead Bones Rise Up

By Katia Joseph — In my dream, I saw millions of black men and women’s dried dead bones, Bone to bone

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