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An Open Letter…

Transmitted on Thursday, June, 18th, 2009 in Heroes & Myth , New Stuff , Poetry , Wonder Woman

An Open Letter to Up and Coming World-Savers
(Wonder Woman)

We all know the keys to our own transformations:
the secluded phone booths, the darkened caves,
the candlesticks that open the secret changing room
in the library, the magic words that conjure lightning,

and on and on.  We’ve all created our methods
of shedding self in favor of  Freud’s superego. Dive deeper…

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Pax Romana

Transmitted on Thursday, June, 18th, 2009 in Heroes & Myth , New Stuff , Poetry , Wonder Woman

Pax Romana
(Wonder Woman)

A boy, no more than twelve,
chanted, through shuttered eyes,
something about freedom from tyrants,
a government in homage of its people.

I hardly heard him over the howling
crowd, the firecracker gunfire, the Molotov
cocktails washing down in hot, smooth
arcs across the red-bricked square.
Dive deeper…

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Sometimes

Transmitted on Tuesday, June, 2nd, 2009 in Love , Poetry

Sometimes

the sound of rain
has become

that assonant murmur
of bustling

train stations,
Dive deeper…

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Blues Man

Transmitted on Tuesday, June, 2nd, 2009 in Love , Poetry

Blues Man

Dark-bodied girl

in the front row,

both eyes closed,

buried in the rhythm

of the way this darkness falls

over your body like wind—

Dive deeper…

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