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A Child's Wisdom

Author's Note: My latest 30 poems in 30 days effort. I'm now 1/6 done. Investigators confiscate snakes, turtles, iguanas, and solitary scorpion- all illegal to own in Detroit- from owner under arrest for other issues. Scorpion finds new home with Animal Cruelty Officer and son. Boy tells camera...

The Dog Wronged

Author's Note: The 6th 100 day poem. The theme for today was to write about a social injustice. Case of embedded collar angers me creating raised, garnet welts that range from neck to midsection. Rendering pretty, yellow dog fearful, nippy, and unfit for re-homing.

Organizer Haiku

Survive... organize to fight injustice... All else iimmaterial.

Emergence

Author's Note; A National Coming Out Day Poem My mother blamed women studies coursework, badly behaved men, and the self-loathing she assumed existed within my personal psyche for the bisexuality I confessed that summer evening on Sasha's borrowed cell in Jana's house a baker's dozen summers' ago....

Thoughts of Lovestruck Bibliophile...

n imaginary conversation between myself and Clare DeTamble, the heroine of the Time Traveler’s Wife. The writing group theme for tonight was "intention". I’m not sure how I feel about it. Is it worth revising?

Recollection

I fall on knee during first full day of latest activist journey, and assume I’m fine- a little sore but fine. I expect pain to dissipate and be barely noticeable by tomorrow. But when I try to stand hours later sudden, searing pain in knee that rendered me immobile and in need of another bathroom...

Report Back in Sestina Format: for my fellow arrestees at the ADAPT Action

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New poem untitled as of yet

The Feminine Intention

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An Untitled Slam Poem

is is a poem I'm going to use in a poetry Slam this Sunday, if I can get accommodated properly due to my speech impairment. It'll be my first official Slam ever. I'm not expecting to win, although it's nice to dream about that, I just want to do it to prove I can. To prove that just because you...