purity turns lace when cut with a blade into powder like blush, snow falls gingerly upon the lines of the streets where rookies drift and …
I Grow Weary Watching Evil Men Gloat
by Alexander Manzoni, Regular Contributor Sunlight fading. The day, it draws to a close. Most of those who were at work are now …
No Crime Here (Except for…)
by Alexander Manzoni, Regular Contributor Time passes on. The days are long, too long. Waiting for the hands of justice to move. Waiting for my government …
“Erasure the Occupant” #1 | Page 1: Hate’s Vantage Point
authors note: this is an erasure of the first page of the Occupants post-impeachment declaration letter written to Speaker Pelosi. I toyed with titles; “The Occupant’s Projections,” “Hate Under Our Seal; the Blackened Sun.” that watch tower and those rising hearts kept talking to me, and they led me to “Hate’s Vantage Point.”
BOOK NOOK | You Are Not Your Rape, an Anthology
Recently named by Margaret Atwood as a “Top 10 Most Important Books on Women,” this Rhythm & Bones publication benefits RAINN, Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), and other nonprofit organizations focused on helping victims & survivors of sexual abuse, assault & trauma.
Weekly Feature | Holographic Animals, a poem by Kushal Poddar
Photo by Manidip Mandal on Unsplash Animals, mostly holograms, flicker. The roads to the woods dream if they could meander back inside our limbic systems. We chance upon …
Reconstruct Woman | Erasure w/ sounds
What do we know about her? The woman, coded and used, looked closely to those who lived.
BREAKING NEWS! Merry Impeachmas
by Alexander Manzoni, Regular Contributor |
Santa’s got a present for you,
not a lump of coal dug out
from the bottom of his boots:
but a bag of subpoenas.
NEW SECTION! ERASURE THE NEWS
We welcome blackout and erasure poetry of any news article, including “Erasure the Occupant” work. Erasures range from highly detailed work of visual artistry to simply bold, with only black marker taken to text.
