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Poetry: Back at You

Back at You by Fleta Vincent   “Stop hollering at me!” his voice roars like thunder from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. “I’m not hollering at you,” I say up from the valley below, “I just want to know why you waited until the last minute to do your science project!”   He kicks the […]

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Poetry: God is Probably a Water Tower

God Is Probably A Water Tower by Robin Gow   Everywhere I’ve lived you can always see one peering over the foreheads of buildings.   This water tower is blue and wants everyone to drink deeply from re-usable water bottles.   We’re killing the earth, I think and I take inventory of the beautiful debris […]

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Poetry: The Mother

  The Mother by Jay Frankston   She takes the seeds from her womb, scatters them to the wind and sings to them, the Mother. And the wind lifts them high above fields, above fears, takes them round and round then lets them fall. And flowers and trees and children grow from the earth. And […]