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
Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law

GOLDEN’S RULE Godwin’s Law* IT SEEMS THAT, Our thoughts aren’t quite the same, my brother. OUR SOURCES ARE DIFFERENT SO You may be misinformed, my friend. PERHAPS Your passion is admirable, comrade.... Read More
after the dream act is revoked

it’s time to get my hair cut again & the dream act just got rolled back what can i do get in the car keep the appointment preserve etiquette the economy routine so stupid ... Read More
RITUAL

A lone turkey struts on our back porch picking at droves of sunflower seed shells for we have been solacing the persistent birds all winter and now it is spring. The last frozen piles of... Read More