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Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future
Simon Elmer Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling...
On the Day of Departure
Edward Curtin
For my dear friend, Graeme MacQueen, the great 9/11 writer, who departed yesterday from life’s mystery to the other....
Faust Walks Out on Easter Morning
Edward Curtin
“All things transient are but a parable” Goethe, Faust These books are killing me he thought. The sun has...
Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice
Margaret Anna Alice
The following poem was inspired by a conversation with Mike Yeadon. We have both independently noticed the increasing use...
The Peace of Wild Things
This Sunday morning we want to greet our readers with something beautiful for our Covid Positive section. This poem...
COMPLICITY / COLLUSION
Korvus Korax TAKE 1 In the bread and circuses phase of an empire’s waning days skillfully framed spin-riddled...
I Wanna Break Lockdown With You
Alison Banville I wanna break lockdown with you Look what it’s turned me into… Fuck Thursday clapping! I’d rather...
A Vision
JR Leach I had this vision back last spring, When the land was ruled by corrupted kings, And greed...
WATCH: Welcome to the Upside Down
Good evening, and welcome to the upside-down. Where what you see, can never be, and what you know, just...
Ragamuffins in Lockdown Time
Christine E. Black I want to be the child In my neighborhood, Kicking a ball down a wet street,...
