Poetry

"...Knight in shining armor! Was that Expected of you..."

Such a storied past...

"reading Sylvia Plath i peel back layers..."

"...Overwhelmed, Over easy, Over you..."

"...They discovered lava streams engulfing every inch of Latoli..."

"...I avoid the TV video violence..."

"...sinking deeper and deeper in the whir of death..."

"...cranked up beyond reason and civility...

"...You will go too but I ask to go first..."

"...An endurance of sorrow and regret..."

"...This rain was very small, tiny, close to none..."

"...like the first drops of rain after years lost in a desperate desert..."

"...the new normal is the abnormal..."

"...a glimmer of someone I feel I know..."

"...we check our antibodies at the door..."

"...we can free each other from phantom cages..."

"...Knight in shining armor! How could you?..."

"...Poems or prose, fresh, never insular..."

"...Is the feeder more famished than the fed?..."

"...If I don't feel much in love anymore..."

"...of termites and serpents slithering into the backyard..."

"...tell me the extent of your dreaming..."

Banqobile Virginia Dakamela, a poet from Zimbabwe, shares with us her words during these times of lockdown ...

"...LOOK THERE AT THAT CRACK!..."

"You are my most excellent of addictions..."

"...Making notes of my life, telling my story..."

"...demented saga greater than Beowulf..."

A poem in visual art.

"...fatherly roles are not chauvinist..."

Dale Ashauer writes poems and stories that sometimes almost make sense. He enjoys a good edit.