Words of Power

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• The Taut String

  
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  by Joe Hyam Put your ear to the hollow stone and see if you can hear, In the corners of the town or in the dark and lonely house, In the country of your head, where unstoppable rivers flow, The childrens’ prayer that you trust no more, but can’t forget, In the nursery of the rhymes that break upon your ...
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• Bird Transformation

  
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  by Harvey E. Parker Download the podcast Harvey E. Parker is a visual artist who teaches Gifted and Talented in four public schools. His interests include mythology, history, maps and books. Most of his work is currently in ATC (Artist Trading Card) format, the only requirement being that the finished ...
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• The Killer Poem

  
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  by Paul Stevens One day I’ll write a poem so wild It will knock you off your perch! You’ll pick yourself up from the floor Weak-kneed and cross-eyed, lurch Towards me wailing, ‘I must have That poet — give him to me!’ See, that’s why I write and write And write this poetry. Download the ...
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• I am waiting for the right instant to say your name

  
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  by Peg Duthie I have torched battalions of straw men in my quest to spin an ending to my liking. I have cajoled seeds into uprooting secrets before they are even drowned or buried. I have fleeced both witches and sailors and clothed empresses with newsprint veils. I have given nothing away, although many who ...
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• He Gives Me My Nahuatl Name

  
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  by Susan Elbe for Francisco Alarcón August 7, 1994 I, myself am not bird, my bones, not hollow easy flutes for song. I, myself am not snake, my skin not silver husk that sloughs me new. But I, myself am the green voice jabbering down the fields. My palms push sky, reek of sun and I cadence the night ...
  6 days ago

• Tricks

  
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  by Zoe Polach We had a list of all the things that were important. It was a long list, but not too long, because it was very carefully edited. Thrift was on it, and wearing pants , and so was keeping good records . We’d made too many mistakes to forget that one. One day at the end of winter, we were ...
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• Afterthought

  
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  by Steve Wing Click on image to see a larger version. Download the podcast Steve Wing ( PBase gallery ) is a visual artist and writer whose work reflects his appreciation for the extraordinary in ordinary days and places. He lives in Florida, where he takes dawn photos on his way to work in an ...
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• The Butcher’s Wife’s Tale

  
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  by Colleen McKee His heart was a poppy, paper-thin. From the women’s balcony I heard it during the silent prayers. His shoulderblades trembled under his tsallit, weapons I wanted for myself. Blame it on Lilith, on boredom. Blame it on dirt got into the mikveh. Blame it on my red hair, or the gap between my ...
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• The Mist in Morning

  
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  by Barbara LaMorticella Let everyone on earth who is alone now reading, sleeping, sitting in small rooms alone and meditating, cutting wood, walking desperately through dark nights Let everyone alone and praying Let everyone alone and grieving Let everyone alone Let everyone contained and pure in solitude ...
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• Man Date

  
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  by Penn Kemp House. Hold. Man. Age. Meant. Well. Well, whoever would have guessed? Not me, when I was up and away, running and running off steam, that I’d return to a house to run, the one I ran from forty-odd years back. Now resounding, rolling round and round the block, the wo(r)ld follows, ...
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• How I Would Do It

  
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  by Angela Just on seeing my baby picture in an album Come here and be my child. I will force-feed you to fatness: nothing denied — and everything that was. Cram it all down your throat. (You will write it later, of course, my meanness and my kindness, the teeter-totter you’ll call mother.) How ...
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• Elements of Force

  
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  by Karyn Eisler Clouds   Lightning   Wind   Rain Download the podcast Karyn Eisler is a Vancouver-based writer, educator and interdisciplinary artist. She holds a PhD in sociology from UBC and teaches at Langara College. In a past life she worked as a radio and television ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unenforceable Promise

  
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  by Julia Martin The party of the first part to this most personal service contract — departed Scratch that clause on successors and assigns Our vow to love forever? Void ab initio per the statute of frauds Not to impugn or imply a deceptive intent The existence of mutual mistake — a flaw in formation ...
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• Pomegranate

  
  qarrtsiluni — Authority: 468
  by Maya Massar So ripe I cannot eat it With any semblance Of politeness Gory with its black-red juice I am an animal Vibrant with the naked hunt Lush with the kill I return to the prayer of ancestors Mother of the Cave Make me your witness: I am She who Lives Pomegranate Too bloody for the rest Has ...
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• Islam for Americans

  
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  by Khadija Anderson 1. means god in Arabic 99 names no eyes no ears Al lah Al lah AL LAH alif lam lam hamsa Allah is not male NOT male not a man or he or HE or anything that you can imagine   2. Does your husband make you wear that? I am a wrapped ...
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• The Charmed Life

  
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  by Susanna Rich It takes nothing — talent nor courage — to be a sleeping princess in a house of glass — Tiffany doves floating in door lights, gold -camed windows, panes that mirror interior lights over outer darkness. Things break only from others’ use — etched flutes and tumblers; the crystal ...
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• ARKEO 4

  
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  by Marja-Leena Rathje Click on image to view a larger version. ARKEO #4 archival inkjet and collagraph on paper 81 x 61 cm. (32″ x 24″) For more information on this print, please see Marja-Leena’s blog post about it, and visit her gallery to see the rest of the series. Download the ...
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• A Language of One

  
  qarrtsiluni — Authority: 468
  by Allen C. Fischer He uttered tainted ellipses, guttural sounds empty of syllable so his words were other than I had ever heard. His yaw, jive and garble mimicked, it seemed, a marred parrot. Seated in the back corner of the subway car, he was in continuous self-rejoinder, chortling, purling, braying. ...
  3 weeks ago

• November

  
  qarrtsiluni — Authority: 468
  by cin salach Spell for the Undoing of Prayers   Let go the hands that fold me, let go the tongue that tells me the trees the creek, they know, they will speak me now Let go the house that holds me, let go the family that calls me the moon the sun, they know, they will hear me now Let go the name ...
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• (incantation: ekstatic)

  
  qarrtsiluni — Authority: 468
  by Jeneva Stone I have gone back to ground back to the fine root hairs that lie along your skin gone back to ground I have in hand the world’s blue cup faint musk of you within back to ground I have gone into murk of natal flesh thrust of the child-wish gone to ground for you I yearn bound to you ever ...
  3 weeks ago

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