Modern Promethea

I was thinking about how not all women bear children, and some of us make people in other ways.

Senryū

Senryū (川柳) is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 morae (or on, often translated as syllables, but see the article on…

I lived in the first century of world wars

‘For Each of You’, Audre Lorde

The Driving Instructor

a poem by  MARION WINIK

Boss makes a dollar I make a dime

I have eaten the rich

Ode to Wattles

Sharon Olds

September 1, 1939

W. H. Auden, 1907 - 1973 I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over…

End of the Century, 1984

Death Synthetic winds have blown awayMaterial dust, but this one roomRebukes the constant violet rayAnd dustless sheds a dusty gloom.Wrecked on the outmoded pastLie North and Hillard, Virgil, Horace,Shakespeare’s bones…