Archive (Page 7) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

2023-10-29 Everything is symbolic in / literature.

2023-10-22 Speak this because I exist.

2023-10-15 make way for / those who know little.

2023-10-08 protested / but not enough

2023-10-01 October is / when night guzzles up/ the orange sherbet sunset

2023-09-24 There is an autumn sadness upon me, / A dreamfulness in my heart,

2023-09-17 Is it possible my function is to hold / All the intricate, interstitial pain

2023-09-10 Fortune's expensive smile / Is earned

2023-09-03 my body just laughs because it knows who started this war

2023-08-27 What are poets for, in such an age? / What is the use of poetry?

2023-08-20 I keep forgetting the change in climate change.

2023-08-13 I know the stories of our loss

2023-08-06 it is just as wrong, or even more, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

2023-07-30 Most likely, you think we hated the elephant, /

2023-07-23 Let them say, as they must say something: /

2023-07-16 muffled our laughter / lowered our voices / let out our hems / dekinked our hair

2023-07-09 We are strange / and unbelonging.

2023-07-02 a concrete jungle drum can’t play no calypso

2023-06-25 And if sun comes / How shall we greet him?

2023-06-18 Do not go gentle into that good night.