by Mark Danowsky
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m listening to DFW read This is Water
while driving Route 30 midday
on office errands.
This time, I slow down
& shake my fist at two human billboards
in protest of their protest
against women’s reproductive rights.
The result could have been scryed.
One of them shakes a fist right back
as if to settle our discourse—
the way you inch your car
closer to an intersection
& the car at your side or behind
predictably inches that much closer.
Mark Danowsky’s poetry has recently appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Red River Review, Right Hand Pointing, Snow Monkey and The Best of Every Day Poets Anthology Two. He resides in Northwest Philadelphia and works for a private detective agency.
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Jumat, 28 Juni 2013
Kamis, 13 Desember 2012
TIBET IS A COUNTRY
by Judith Partin-Nielsen
BEIJING — Chinese police officials have detained a Tibetan monk and his nephew and accused them of playing a role in a series of self-immolations, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. The move appeared to be part of a campaign to prosecute Tibetans who are accused of aiding others who set fire to themselves in protest of Chinese rule. --Edward Wong, The New York Times, December 10, 2012
1
young monk’s red
and saffron robes
dissolving into flame
the intersection of
faith, courage and despair
2
Outside the rug shop
Tibetan flag flutters
Mourning the death
of the “land of Snows”
Following a trail of words, mountains, spirit and tears, this writer, mother, wife and eventually psychoanalyst left Texas for Colorado in 1985. The land of the Arapahoe welcomed me and called me by name. The love of poetry, poet and high mountain valleys has warmed my heart and made my home. Freud said “everywhere I go, the poet has gone before me.” May we keep following those footsteps on our paths thru the worlds. Judith Partin-Nielsen teaches contemplative psychotherapy at Naropa University, practices psychoanalysis and writes poetry.
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BEIJING — Chinese police officials have detained a Tibetan monk and his nephew and accused them of playing a role in a series of self-immolations, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. The move appeared to be part of a campaign to prosecute Tibetans who are accused of aiding others who set fire to themselves in protest of Chinese rule. --Edward Wong, The New York Times, December 10, 2012
1
young monk’s red
and saffron robes
dissolving into flame
the intersection of
faith, courage and despair
2
Outside the rug shop
Tibetan flag flutters
Mourning the death
of the “land of Snows”
Following a trail of words, mountains, spirit and tears, this writer, mother, wife and eventually psychoanalyst left Texas for Colorado in 1985. The land of the Arapahoe welcomed me and called me by name. The love of poetry, poet and high mountain valleys has warmed my heart and made my home. Freud said “everywhere I go, the poet has gone before me.” May we keep following those footsteps on our paths thru the worlds. Judith Partin-Nielsen teaches contemplative psychotherapy at Naropa University, practices psychoanalysis and writes poetry.
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