We will not forget Just another day just another town bullet perforated backpacks spilling loose-leaf lined paper, textbooks onto blood stained sidewalks helicopters hovering to give us the birds eye view I tried to avert my eyes out of respect for the dead the injured but I could not look away Christine Ray Even though … Continue reading We Cannot Look Away: Not another 17, not another One
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Seasons
The afternoon light, beneath my toes talking a pale story where a mother aborts another one, father, a ruminating hard albumen. our typewriters often broke, and another language was written deformed, cracked Summers have always taught to swim winters, quietly taught about sinking. and a star too that dissolves at night. i have seen it … Continue reading Seasons
To Carry a Knife – Kristiana Reed
My daughter will learn how to hone the blades on the tip of her tongue; and she will cut and sculpt words which move the world to tears and action. She will use her mother’s weapons to leave this world a better place; carrying a knife in her wit and not her pocket, wielding strength … Continue reading To Carry a Knife – Kristiana Reed
What It Means to Be A ‘Warrior Voice Of Survival’- Candice Louisa Daquin
Testify! – A Collaboration
Elephants in the arena, drowning out the stories as we all hear them, stomping on the flowerbed scenery they've built around your garden of rot, and without a second thought, sold the world a wilting centerpiece (Nicholas Gagnier) I And His Daughter Prayed for Her She didn’t really know why She prayed she’d not meet … Continue reading Testify! – A Collaboration
