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DISAPPEARING DREAMS by Dušan Čolović In the softness of the vibrant Celestial skirt The day unnoticeably takes away Flock by flock My shed dreams. In the twilight Crushed by fatigue I forget To copy them Onto the paper And while they disappear into Forgetfulness The night fills my room with moonlight. |
SHOP WINDOW by Wendy Lian Rivara |
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A CITY by Roger G. Singer The brashness of a gray afternoon curses at roadside bars, all night diners and clotheslines resembling sagging roadmaps. Mud flaps proselytize to the lost while angels search for the abandoned; neon lights tempt the lonely from corners. In the distance, a city. A breath spread wide of buildings and faces, where evil drains into collars and sweat is salted by the ravaging of circling crows. |
DOUBLED by Wendy Lian Rivara |
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GRAY MATTERS by Erren Geraud Kelly for emmett till and mack parker I. riding on the bus young black boys stick their necks out whistling at white girls they laugh, not knowing not long ago young black brothas were hanged for doing the same thing II. walking down the street a mixed couple feels the eyes and the stinging air "there's one of them nigger lovers," a good ol' boy tells his friend "why you gotta sell us out like that?" a pissed-off sista yells behind the black man's back only in darkness this couple finds peace is she just a token of his upwardly mobile status or does he really love her? only a blue-eyed vanillabrown child will know the truth |
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