“Red State: Blue Heart” by Karen Bovenmyer

Red State: Blue Heart

A blue heart: Red state, I confess to
resisting
white
colorblind
microagressions
resisting
cisgender
straight
privilege
resisting
Red state: I confess to a blue heart

Karen Bovenmyer
11/17/2016

“Exposed” by Debbie Theiss

Exposed

His words like pinpricks
make
tiny
holes
gaping
make
unrelenting
pleas
make
pinpricks, like his words

Debbie Theiss
11/13/15

“Flashback” by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin

Flashback

Your heart opens a loop
Where
Love
Finds
Replicas
Where
Time
Rearranges
Itself
Where
A loop opens your heart 

         ***

         Résonances

 

          Ton cœur ouvre une alliance

          Où

          L’Amour

          Trouve

          Ses échos

          Où

          L’Après

          Se

          Réinvente

          Où

          Une alliance ouvre ton cœur 

 

          Nathalie Boisard-Beudin

          (Poem and French translation)

          11/10/15

On the First Night of the Coming Race War

On the First Night of the Coming Race War

George Zimmerman will no longer be
Free
To
Accost
Nightfall—
Free
To
Annihilate
Darkness.
Free,
George Zimmerman will no longer be.

Jeffery L. Coleman
11/9/15