Poetry - Page 9

The Beach

we drive to the placewhere water kisses the landsmelling salty airexcited to let the sunbeamskiss our face This EarthOur Earthmade the floor into a pillowand...

Suffrage

Pray for the martyrsViola Gregg Liuzzo, Lamar Smith, Louis Allen,Reverend George Lee, Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Jimmy Lee Jackson,Vernon Ferdinand...

Ethridge

A name passed down by my fatheralong with his bipolar disorder and fear of attachment.As a child,I was told stories of Ethridges before me...

You said My Name

I looked at you from across the tableYou spoke to the roomsomething about what you heard on the newsBut I didn’t hear more than...

One Nation, Under Fraud

Where the hell did our country go?It’s only remnants of its former gloryNow a Frankenstein monster, a fake reality showSeemingly the end to our...

Garrapata State Park

Located twenty miles down Highway 1 from California State University, Monterey Bay. Up a trail, past the two porta-potties there was none; a...