Patients
By Aurora Levins MoralesWhy do they call us "the patient"
We are not patient. We endure.
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Aurora Levins MoralesWhy do they call us "the patient"
We are not patient. We endure.
By Joselia Rebekah HughesBlack able rack able
hack able tack able
lack able slack able
By Liv MammoneThe train is a creature that moves like water.
It has no eyes, only a sharp
mouth that closes on those too slow.
By Liza SparksWhen a ponderosa pine
is over one hundred—
it sheds a layer of bark.
By Michal 'MJ' JonesYou are [found] in
cherry blossom trees / heron bird flight /rib-
bon of night / space between stairs / rose
By Lip Manegiothe trees were dying again. i had been spending
more time on the porch than usual, letting
the early november freeze get the better
By Juan J. MoralesLike two hands pressed
together, they are twice as large
on the island. One feeds
By Deborah A. MirandaThe people you cannot treat as people
Whose backs bent over your fields, your kitchens, your cattle, your children
We whose hands harvested the food we planted and cultivated for your mouth, your belly.