Never Forget
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American peace activist and a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. She was crushed to death while…
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American peace activist and a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. She was crushed to death while…
The President has lost his marbles!They crouch behind the pillows of his brain,Waiting, coiling for the perfect momentTo strike! Or… slink away,Fluttering in the gasping world….The Lady-in-Waiting is likewise befuddled;She…
About Mr. X, we needn't be too kind.He was never one of us, but ratherOdd, the way he urged we keep an open mindAbout things we'd already made our minds…
“Whoever controls the information, controls the imagination.” --George Orwell “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” --Albert Einstein “Imagine there’s no countries… It isn’t…
Indian Grandala birds, perched on thin, gray branches, against a gray-green background-sky-- something like a mountainside; male and female, one supposes, wondering what songs they make, what harmonies their colors…
1. I went searching for the me of me! Who is it? What is it? How will I know? Is it unchangeable—a hyper-essence? If I found it, would I…
Turmeric, turmeric-- coppery-golden spice! Rubbed on fish, rubbed on chicken-- it's finger-lickin' good! Add it to rice, drink it in tea-- a little bit goes far! It can save your…
What was it that they thought to own? Decades, centuries kept intent intact. And, still it calls us, stone by stone, To eke out meaning from mere fact. Observatory, temple,…
1. Putin! Putin! There’s really no disputin’! You’re a liar and a louse And you look like a mouse! Get out of our House! This House we call “Earth”! That’s…
“Footfalls echo in the memory/ Down the passage which we did not take/ Towards the door we never opened/ Into the rose-garden.” (T. S. Eliot; from, “Four Quartets”) 1. Recent,…
“The President’s been shot!” he shouted, clamoring his way down the stairs in the dorm. The upper-classman! I was making my way to the third floor, and he was…
The tree reaches...the way a hand Reaches--towards the sky, sunlight, rain, the moon; Towards all things known...and yet to be. Upward, Outward...towards our better selves...and others' Better selves; towards new…
1. 75… and still alive! Just live to give; just yearn to learn! “To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.” But, can we be kind? Can we…
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” --Pablo Picasso 1. First, he mastered…
First, they came for our masks! Then they came for our muzzles! But… we’d been masked for so long We all felt naked without them! We’d been muzzled for so…
“A constant sacrament of praise….” --Wallace Stevens Give praise whenever you can! Praise: Sunrise on snow-capped mountains; Sunsets on marigold fields; Every act of kindness and solicitude; Children smiling…
Behind a screen of pastel petals That seem to make A dreamy, windchimes’ sound, She finds herself emerging in a world Where clashing cymbals echo all around, And yet… in…
Sweet apocalypse in the blood! Stephen-King nightmare in the brain! Mortar rounds at synapses! Invader of our personal stash! SweetSweet as Delilah’s lips! Cooing with the voice of Mom—…
1. Crackling Aging is like a multitude of doors, closing in back alleys—sunless… (or lit by a lamppost in a film noir script). You think you see a beautiful face—gas-lit,…
A review of Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies: Critical and Lyrical Essays, by Edward Curtin. (Atlanta, GA, Clarity Press, Inc. 349 pp. 2020.) “There’s something happening here …
By Giuseppa Cochiara and Gary Steven Corseri Food for the poor, Water for plants Rain for arid land. Everyone adds A pinch of hope To the dish of Life.…
“…how beset we were with what…we had been taught….” --Kenneth Patchen. A poem for voices, with shakuhachi and koto…. (Sound of shakuhachi, a wooden flute--as though the…
(Author’s Note: Here’s a poem about US—and much of the world’s--politics in this “modern age,” in which the emphasis of our “hidden persuaders” (and, often, blatant manipulators) is not so…
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink…
(The title alludes to the photo by W. Eugene and Aileen Smith, in which a mother bathes her crippled, twelve-year-old daughter…. A hundred people died and nearly a thousand were…
1. "Girasole," Italians say, accent on soul, "g" as in gyro, the last syllable, lay--a medieval song. In my uncle's garden there were many (heads taller than I, taller even…
1. If I come back to earth as a movie star, I want to be that guy nobody knows. You know who I mean, don't you? As a young…
I do not find it profitable to talk to the dead! They are so single-minded! They repeat old stories over and over Until one feels like screaming: “PLEASE MOVE ON!”…
God bless the cherry-pickers! They swarm upon the ground— picking, picking, picking what’s unerringly found. They love low-hanging branches where picking’s easily done. They abhor a wealth of chances. “Tough…
[Author’s Note:The 39thPresident of the United States (1977-1981), Jimmy Carter has been in the news recently, and we wish him well…. I consider him one of the great people I’ve…
With Pilar Viviente, Gary Corseri and some esteemed friends Photo: “A Tower of Understanding”. By Pilar Viviente, Venice, 2019 “Life can certainly throw us some hardballs, that’s for sure! But…
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I write for the men of a thousand years hence— and the women—and their healthy children. And…, if you are suffering, if night is day and day is night,…
I know it sounds incredible, but this is how it happened…. I was flipping channels on my Fake News cable box, hunting/searching for a morsel of something tasty, digestible…
“Eureka! Eureka! (I have found it!)” --Archimedes “Having played with fire, one knows inner forms, inner function.” -–Kijima Hajime Let’s first debunk the “fake news”! Famed scientist…
1) Nothing. One hand cannot clap…. 2) Half the sound of 2 hands clapping…. 3) Air…. 4) A bowl of rice…. 5) A cup of tea….…
In 2007, Sotheby’s auctioned a can of artist’s shit for 180,000 dollars. “Sophisticated,” “cultured” types clamored to buy a tin of shit an auction house called “Art.”
In the intro to this dialogue between Paul Kurtz and Vince Salandria–poignantly intercut with JFK’s own words on his goals and hopes for salvaging the human race from the…
Please help the people in Houston, Lord. And, while You’re at it, in Palestine, too! Though worlds apart, they are kindred, as all suffering creatures are kindred.
Dogs live in a world of smells— succulent, sensual: a melange of sexuality--known and unknown, friendly and prohibitive. They’re color-blind, love blindly, lead the blind (when so inclined). …
To lie closer, they folded their plicate wings, ate blood and shit and the sweat of each other, retched their names in history’s spittoon, lay blear-eyed, dreamed-out, dreamless at last.
During our recent “celebration” of Memorial Day, I heard the rumblings of muscular motorcycles outside my window, on the streets below my apartment in Washington, D.C. There seemed to be…
The computer whined a kind of laugh…. “You’re on a biometric leash! We know your thoughts before you strew them haphazardly about.”
While Obama and Cameron take “selfies,” shedding crocodile tears at Nelson Mandela’s final farewell, our Lady Mandela gazes over the path she has made by her walking.
1. Dah! It’s true! Every time I come upon some clever turn-of-phrase, they’re in my brain, they’re at my screen— hacking, hacking, hacking! Every metaphor I write…
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (from “The Sermon on the Mount”) [Interviewer’s Note: A man who has published more than 150…
To see the planet whole; To know our place upon it; To nurture and restore it; To abide in moderation, With compassionate humility; That the arts might consecrate us— I…
Share the bounty of the Earth! Make a joyful sound! A teaspoon's worth can give new birth; let the hills resound-- there's plenty to go around, sharing in rebirth.
Peace Plays is a splendid book: a lens with which to contemplate our modern world of foibles, follies, self-and-mass destruction. It’s a book to read, and re-read, and savor. It…
When Jesus and the Buddha met in a meadow of larkspurs, on a balmy day, the bees of the valley went mad with love, the sky and the sun were…
I recall from my early teens, the "Judgment at Nuremberg" movie, which made a big impression then about "justice" and the "rightness and virtue" of the Allied cause. …
Have I been out-Trumped? (He doth bestride the narrow world like a Collosus!) Out-Foxed by one “extremely careless”? Oh, what Ailes me now? What Ailes us all? But, soft, what…
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