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"My heart is empty now," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

My heart is empty now Please just let me turn down this volume in my head, so I can sit back, place my hands behind my head like a hammoc...

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"Shadows," a poem by Gene Kimmet

SHADOWS We walk together on this late December afternoon as we have walked For more than half a century. If we stand each year in sunshin...

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"Waiting" by Charles E. Rice

Waiting is no game. It belongs to life as intimately as sleeping. To survive our times of waiting poses one of life's greatest challenges...

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"She Moved Me," a song by Hal Rice

Hal: vocals, guitars, bass Hugo: drums She Moved Me You choose me She tastes me like fall She chose me Selects me first overall I need me...

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"Strelitzia," a poem by Charles Ghigna

Strelitzia Like birds in paradise we flew orange and blue beneath the guillotine of night. from STONES: The Collected Short Poems of Char...

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"The Hawk," a poem by Phil Rice

The Hawk A long red light with no traffic keeps the car idling and anxious. Across the highway, a cornfield shows the collapse of autumn;...

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"I Meant to Close the Window," a poem by Virginia Smith Rice

I Meant to Close the Window Where are those terror ful nights we suffered as children? Look in boxes under the eaves, unless attics have ...

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"The Old Dreamer," a poem by Gene Kimmet

Illustration by Sarah Hasty Williams The Old Dreamer No longer dreams of glass-winged dragonflies That hawked mosquitos from the summer s...

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"A Brooklyn Night in July," a poem by Charles Ghigna

A Brooklyn Night in July In the street below two gangs pierce soft places where flesh had been while here on the tar-papered tenement roo...

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"Appalachian Memories," a poem by Gene Kimmet

Appalachian Memories Hairpin turns in old cars With bad brakes, the reek Of whiskey. Tacky towns With tilted streets, young girls Gigglin...

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"Sangoma," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

Sangoma The sky is heavy with rain. She touches heads of hundreds with her hand and walks among them, the bones in her sack in agreement w...

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"Here's the Thing" by Ciretta Marion Carroll

Here’s the Thing (For Janice and Phil) Slowly the news of your reality came to Most of us in this modern age on our screens – Distance ma...

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Yang Wan-li: "Crossing Open-Anew Lake"

A fisherman’s taking his boat deep across the lake. My old eyes trace his path all the way, his precise wavering, in and out of view. The...

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Canopic Riffs: Rosko Gee on Chris Wood

Editor's note: Rosko Gee entered my consciousness as the superb bass guitarist on Traffic's When the Eagle Flies LP (1974), which was fol...

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Phil Rice: Words for Charles, My Son

Charles Leslie died on Dec. 23, 1992, not quite five months past his birth. According to the paperwork, he died of SIDS, an acronym for “...

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Canopic Riffs: Hal on NRBQ

“They played like a choir from heaven that just drank their first gaggle of cheap beer.” “NRBQ ... ” “Terry Adams wanted his band to have...

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Tim Pfau: Fragments

There is a long and pleasant corridor, in the finest Nursing Home I have seen, protected by a coded locking door. On either side, life’s ...

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"The boy who would die," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

"The boy who would die," a poem written and read by Rethabile Masilo, is from the book Waslap (The Onslaught Press, 2015). This reading w...

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Gleah Powers: Pirouettes

She perked me up when she did her perfect pirouettes to the Blue Danube waltz. She wore a sky blue tutu made from stiff nylon netting and...

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"The waslap of my father," a poem by Rethabile Masilo

"The waslap of my father," a poem written and read by Rethabile Masilo, is from the book Waslap (The Onslaught Press, 2015). This reading...

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