Poetry
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THE GOOSEBUMPS ON RABBIT’S NECK IN CLEAR WRAP
By Linda Ashok We are done weighing- A kilo of pomegranate and guavas Potatoes discounted at INR 28 a kilo Sprigs of lotuses, 250 grams of masoor, chillies and that’s it. After my grandpa’s demise, my mother Was worried if fish will ever become a part of our meal again. His pension was the only…
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Gods Are Not The Kind Of Machines That Last
By Greg McDonald I wrote a psalm for Jesus while I was sleeping. It turns out differences are settled with cross words in the new world, that rules are measured in miles like horses, then discarded, that night is the breaking of bread, the welter of birds it affords, the cove where Christ gorges on…
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Jayne Cortez, “Find Your Own Voice”
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moyZ7Rld2w] A Dialogue Between Voice and Drums,” live at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY on October 23, 2010. “A firespitting evening with drummer Denardo Coleman, featuring a voice celebrated for her political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez’s literary work and impassioned activism, inspired by the ideals of…
