Three Poems by Alan Cohen

Gone Tomorrow We venture out in the morning The two of us Venture into traffic Start towards work At home here Not because we vote as our neighbors Not because we know them Or root... Read More

Poetry

  I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining. Patience, an old-fashioned name the Puritans borrow from the Bible and... Read More

Poetry by Morgan Driscoll

Stimulated Economy High above and in between the tropics on the darker continents ignored or mostly ignored in the places where the latte’s poured, the coffee cherries, picked and sorted, prepped to dry, lie on... Read More

The Prisoner’s Lament

They want me to be nonviolent, And surround me with violence. They want me to make better choices, And remove all meaningful choice. They want me to respect the law, And entangle me in petty... Read More