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Michelle Bailat-Jones
Amit Parmessur
Steve Barfield
Fahredin Shehu
Karyn M. Bruce
Richard Gartee
Running Cub
Dejoy Robillard
Yuan Hongri
Lasz.o Slomovits
Silvia Scheibli
Stephen Sleboda
Alan Britt
Gale Acuff
Elisavietta Ritchie
Shutta Crum
Patty Dickson Pieczka
Duane Locke
Jennifer Burd
Aneek Chatterjee
Robert Nisbet
Robert Penick
Alex Ferde
Solomon Musa Haruna
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Francis Ferde
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CULTURE SHOCK
Night
sticks
turn
to
prayer beads
fill
eye
sockets
of
ghost dancers
float
past
the
midnight
gasps
for
breath
on
any avenue
called
home.
The battering
bone
now broken
and thrown
lands
in
column
of
hands
with
sweat
ready
to
nest
in
the
depths
of
fire, in water.
FLAMES 5/29/2020
Flames
from
a
building
at
the
crossroads
of
a
nation
drowning
in
tears,
billows
of
smoke
flood
the
waves
of
night.
Down to the Vision 1/27-28/2020
Then there was that time down in Ybor City
Or maybe Davis Island in a ray-glo rubber room rhyme
When the notion to take hold of the Astral Physics
On the red sweater nurse with shiny wine nails spilled out of the play time
locked ward floor.
Cozy as it was in the open door closet
The whistle blew and blew and blew in the unarmed guards
And from the strong armed rescue
With the day room parachute in mind
That lead down to the Vision
And how we’ll all get off
Holding on to the dirty white ragged robe
To leave this world, to leave this age.
Stephen Sleboda, Holyoke, Massachusetts