Blind Ambition
By Kathi WolfeI'm in my seat,
averting my eyes,
those funhouse mirrors,
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Mercy
By Tyehimba Jessthe war speaks at night
with its lips of shredded children,
with its brow of plastique
The Living Need a Poem
By Saul LandauThe Cold War is over
why aren't we having fun
I have destroyed my internal Timex
The Absence of Unnecessary Hurting
By Gretchen PrimackThis is the press of the earth. One star hanging
there, honking like a goose. The lake
a smudge of black juice, the hill a draped
Hammering on Rocks
By Joseph RossHammering on rocks
can break the hammerer's back
when stooped
Sunday Kind of Love
By Truth ThomasShayna reads the Word and takes
the story of that first miracle as
serious as unpaid electric bills in
winter
Cowgirl Filibuster
By Lisa L. MooreWord got out about the bad bill.
College students packed up their bikinis,
went back to Austin to tell those men why
Broken
By Lillian AllenThe boy is broken on the sidewalk
The sidewalk is broken beneath him
His colour is back (not black)