Longitude by Ann Wrayburn
In August heat, the urge to be misplaced
can find you standing on the sidewalk, disoriented,
holding someone else’s photos by mistake.
Trying to place that cottage, that sandy porch.
Before...
Refugee, 15 by Naomi Thiers
Fear is in your bread
and you must choke it down.
To think of home—
the courtyard with its red filigreed rug,
the peel-paint walls, how the breeze with its tang
of...
The Story of My Father by Holly Karapetkova
He spoke seven languages and was never allowed to leave the country.
He’d gone to school in Paris, which made him an enemy of the people.
I’m sorry, but...
Patriotism Reconsidered by Lucinda Marshall
Ed. Note: Another in our series of poems by writers who participated in Arlington Writers Resist.
My anthem is the serenade of birds,
sung without regard for map lines
delineating...
Dark Energy by Susan Mockler
Ed. Note: Another in our series of poems from poets who participated in Arlington Writers Resist on January 15, 2017
—for the parents of the children at Sandy...
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