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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

ALEPPO

by George Salamon Wretched Aleppo, Bereaved by death Who grants no audience To human flesh As humanity prepares Another feast for death. Af...

IF THIS IS MY LAST MESSAGE

Sean Lenon 5:33 PM

by Freesia McKee To see Ismail Alabdullah's heartbreaking video tweet, go to https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/8088344826105896...

ALEPPO

Sean Lenon 5:42 AM

by Peleg Held  Source: Twitter , 5:59 AM, December 13, 2016 There is a city. It is not our city. Its broken buildings are full of bodies. Th...

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JANUARY 13TH, 2017

by Marc Swan https://www.womensmarch.com In a short hop against convention, my wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th. Today a road tr...
GRAVE DIGGER

by Carolyn Gregory He digs his own grave, throwing in the bones of other dead men first— a femur and skull from a couple of immigrants climb...
SEED CORN MUST NOT BE GROUND

by Pamela Wynn Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground : A mother protecting her children, lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. Image source: Spartacus ...
TERRIFIED

by Marsha Owens Image adapted from Scott Brundage Illustration . Who are you? roared the Cyclops. I’m terrified , I whispered back. And wel...
AFTER THE INAUGURATION, EVERYTHING IS PORTENTOUS

by Allison Blevins Photo by Fletcher Gravy I think about the absolutes of motion when I’m naked, how a pendulum swings, how a scale unbalanc...
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE

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...
A FRIEND BREAKS HIS RENAISSANCE SWORD ON A PAPAYA

by Kristina England Any fruit can hide the fierceness of its rinds. We should never believe the weapon invincible. Record low temperatures t...
TODAY

by Laura Rodley For you, my grandchildren, I am saving pine needles in the forest. For you, my grandchildren I am hanging up my clothes, sav...
EXAMPLE

by Salvador Díaz Mirón from his 1901 collection Lascas [ Stone Chippings ]; translation by Julie Steiner Iraqi children giggle at the bod...
IMMIGRANT

by Alan Catlin Does it matter? Now, here, today That they were grunts in Vietnam, her father, uncles, cousins and that she the niece, daught...