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...
Driving to Juniata by Katherine E. Young
for David Hutto
Up there’s the interstate, peeping through trees.
Down here among hollows, satellite dishes,
a man on his deck guzzles beer, wishes
he were driving that highway. His fancy...
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