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Saturday, March 18, 2017

THE SURVEYOR'S REPORT

Sean Lenon 3:00 AM

a belated Pi Day (3.14) poem by Karen Greenbaum-Maya It's a cruel people. Barbarians, they keep dead trees among the struggling living, ...

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Labels: #TheNewVerseNews, 3.14, barbarians, hate, irrational, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, pastry, pi, poetry, stars, travesties, worship

Friday, March 17, 2017

CHRONICLES

Sean Lenon 3:00 AM

by Judith Terzi They are taking something away in America. They have stolen all the cows in South Sudan. They are hawking their egos on mino...

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Labels: #LordOfTheLies, #NotMyPresident, #resist, #TheNewVerseNews, ego, equivocation, famine, Judith Terzi, poetry, poor, South Sudan, starvation

Thursday, March 16, 2017

BLOOD, COFFEE, AND A COVERED LIFE

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by Jill Crainshaw Daily Signe Cartoon 03/14/17 The old hymn from my childhood pounds out a heat-beating rhythm in my head. “There is power, ...

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Labels: #LordOfTheLies, #resist, #TrumpCareLess, coverage, GOP, hospital, hospitalist, Jill Crainshaw, Obamacare, power, repeal and replace, Starbucks

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

SONG OF 45

Sean Lenon 3:00 AM

by Alejandro Escudé I listen for the listener in my darkened airplane of a home, stars cycle within me, the sun blazes as if it rose for me...

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Labels: #LordOfTheLies, #NotMyPresident, #resist, #SoCalledPOTUS, #TheNewVerseNews, Alejandro Escudé, curtains, microphones, molecules, poetry, wiretapping

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

waves

waves

MIGRATIONS #1

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by Judith Partin Nielsen Shifting Perception, painting by Jay Alders ...

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Labels: #TheNewVerseNews, border, desert, El Senõr, José Angel Alfano Solana, Judith Partin Nielsen, naranjas, ocean, poetry, running, stars, sun, water, waves

Monday, March 13, 2017

PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE

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by Thomas R. Smith Late afternoon sun on snow. Intense flare concentrated in the west, skimming cold shadows pooling below the dam. On the p...

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Labels: #NotMyPresident, #resist, #TheNewVerseNews, democracy, ducks, EPA, geese, government, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, poetry, Rachel Carson, Scott Pruitt, swans, Thomas R. Smith, White House

Sunday, March 12, 2017

ON THE PRACTICE OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

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by David Feela The clocks, advanced one hour, will not save us, not from the imaginations of oblivious children exhausted in the moist dark ...

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Labels: #TheNewVerseNews, dark, David Feela, daylight savings time, hat, hour, hourglass, poetry, shadows, Sisyphus

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