The Poetry of Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton
On a Palestinian Girl Escaping Tomorrow She balances tomorrow’s humanity. Dreams outlive brutal thieves. Dreams form crooked smiles....
On a Palestinian Girl Escaping Tomorrow She balances tomorrow’s humanity. Dreams outlive brutal thieves. Dreams form crooked smiles....
Squatters' Rights a raging stampede down at the border tempestuous pugnacious untethered acrimonious tempestuous starved foreboding...
The Nation’s Summer Two black children running Wild Begonias Clay Mudpies Wild Peach Juice Sunset Wild Two black children running ...
aubade i swallowed my land blasted with light amnesia of shrapnels' gravity amnesia brush of tenderness amnesia swallowed my land i...
Never once had I seen a poet In dull brown orthopedic shoes. Thick, nerdy glasses, yes. The stoop I nursed was my Mending Wall-- A...
the rest is silence Horatio is digging graves beneath bodies gossamer afterlife beneath blue cloves Gaza beneath graves Horatio is...
Speeding my fast red pony car peeling black road shadows peeling horse cart boy peeling red, my fast car pony 10/25/2023 Ingrid Bruck, a...
The journey Palestinians ordered to leave Gaza Walk Rubble Glass Munitions Walk Bullets Bombs Bodies Walk Leave Gaza Palestinians ordered...
Penned Cannot write. Words, runted, leper shoes. Words in the corner. Words, cannot write. 7/17/2023 Craig Kirchner has written poetry...
Hyde I am Hyde. Words dance, spasm, posit. Words molest become poem, words. Hyde, I am. 6/15/2023 Craig Kirchner has written poetry all...
Lovely Lilies Can’t Touch the Truth Lovely lilies touch her hair, When She Is Bleeding, When She Is Crying, When Her hair touches lovely...
When will the crown of the Kremlin King fall? The black domes of churches meet the sun, on the right, a bloody tile polished to a shine,...
Zoom Workshop Little rectangular poets Muted Masks That Hide Muted Masks That Reveal Muted Poets, little rectangles 3/20/2023 Pat Valdata...
Debris Rifle through debris bodies puddled waiting children's bodies still bloody bulleted bodies Debris, we've rifled. 3/4/2023 Serena...
Ten Years On I return to that image, to you leaving that cliff, your chaos mind hurtling you into the imagination. Return to me. Matt...
Democracy Blocced Making a mockery of democracy, blocs block forward movement; blocs sit smugly giggling– blocs, making a democracy of...
Memphis Statuary, 2017 They are lying in a secret warehouse, Denying, Bedford Jefferson Harvey Denying, loss lashing, silently denying,...
America, shredded "We can protect our children," we cry "Rip 'inclusive' books!" Bullets rip Blood-blanketed little bodies R.I.P. We cry....
on learning to fly fresh wings seek flight as snow blankets flight and humans in flight seek fresh wings Jennifer Schneider 8/9/2022...
I DREAM MY BODY, MY OWN AGAIN June 24, 2022 Before today my body was free— Rebel Bird Angel Wing Rebel Petal Float Free Rebel Before...