Children are praying, again, on sidewalks And park-gazing fences, chalking holy memes In rainbow colors to turn back the clock, To playground afternoons before the quarantine. Shall I chide them for such puerile instruction? Or grind their metaphysical lenses To … Continued
All that is left of you are words Words you turned into colors Colors you scattered across pages Of your abbreviated life. Shades of Blue: For tears shed by angsty adolescent daughter … Continued
Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more cheerful. Joseph Stalin In the old days under Stalin they’d arrest you in the midnight hours of indifference, throw you into a concrete room lit by a bare bulb where questions … Continued