initiatives: immigration gun control onto mindfulness
choice: Roe at 40 diplomacy not bullets meditation soon
Arab spring winters climate changes coastlines now await inner peace
Sandra Eisdorfer was a university press editor (Duke, University of North Carolina Press, Oxford), now teaches writing classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University.
Tricia Knoll grew up in the 50s when the arrival of Life Magazine was a big deal for everyone in the family. A Portland, Oregon poet, she watches the mutations of word meanings. She maintains a daily haiku practice.
Revolution dreams every policy opposed to red elephant values Southern successions revisited saving colors that don’t run from freedom hating Kenyans, change witch doctor huts to prefabs justifying semi-auto ownership and mass killing violence with discount T-shirt slogans, “guns don’t kill people people kill people.” Simple facts that baseball bats murder less than quickly changed clips on unsuspecting movie goers temporary burdens on six pallbearers carrying bodies safe to the grave the only safety guaranteed soon forgotten by the masses. Public discourse talks of policy’s failure to divert death in totality never touching the golden cow with a butt branded number two, refuse the compromise saying one life saved is worth more than circular retorts clouded necessity for exploding shells stashes of bullets caches of guns simply to hoard till the day the Democrats come to take it all away failing to confirm America lacks any form of self-control.
Jonathan Flike is a writer, artist, and starving student. His poems have appeared in Viewpoints and Wilde Magazine. Jonathan’s first major collection of poetry, Tales from Room 225, was published in June, 2011. His second collection, It Gets Worse, is set for a February 2013 release date.
"Will you still see meteors tonight, December 14, 2012?" --EarthSky
by Priscilla Lignori
Shower of bullets replaced one of stars - heartbreak in Connecticut
Priscilla Lignori is a psychotherapist in private practice and the winner of international awards for haiku poetry. The founder and teacher of Hudson Valley Haiku-kai, a community dedicated to studying and living the Way of Haiku, her poems have been published in the World Haiku Review, The Asahi Hakuist Network, Ko magazine, and The Mainichi Daily News.
