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Marisol Baca – Remedios Sketch 4

Marisol Baca Remedios Sketch 4   She is in motion her neck is as long as a swan’s there are fleur des lis traveling away from her she rides on a machine of wheels and on the engines of flight She comes with a raiment of clouds and interstellar dust there are webs fluttering betweenContinue reading “Marisol Baca – Remedios Sketch 4”

Jeffrey Schultz – X. Poem of Fruits to Come

Jeffrey Schultz X. Poem of Fruits to Come   Liberation is not at hand. In my parents’ yard, A modest three-quarters of an acre, Stands a single late Elberta peach tree. In my childhood and youth, Before all the remaining Valley acreage was torn out, The fruit could be found at roadside stands. I rememberContinue reading “Jeffrey Schultz – X. Poem of Fruits to Come”

Jeffrey Schultz – IX. Poem Written Eighteen Years after Having First Met the Poet Joshua Robbins on September 11, 2001

Jeffrey Schultz IX. Poem Written Eighteen Years after Having First Met the Poet Joshua Robbins on September 11, 2001   Faith is mute       with a muteness All faith’s own. It is nothing so resounding As the muteness of god, Structured though it is By this same. We had supposed Poetry might be made still             toContinue reading “Jeffrey Schultz – IX. Poem Written Eighteen Years after Having First Met the Poet Joshua Robbins on September 11, 2001”

Marisol Baca – Remedios Sketch 2

Marisol Baca Remedios Sketch 2   If her coat were a watercolor it would be soaked its ragged edges would be many wings her nimbus is flaking gold and robin’s egg blue her buttoned corset, her long neck, the double curve of her cupid’s bow Here, she is detached so close to home she hasContinue reading “Marisol Baca – Remedios Sketch 2”