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The Beast Come Round

By | 2019-11-14T06:28:22-08:00 November 14th, 2019|Categories: Issue 98: 14 November 2019|Tags: , |

By J David Cummings “Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”                                                      —W. B. Yeats, 1919 It is born, it is here, it moves among us, not as nightmare, the comforts of metaphor, but in the real of time. Mothers are caged and raped, girls are raped, children are stolen. The children die. Close-watched boys are [...]

If I Could Write a Political Poem, It Would Say

By | 2018-10-03T15:12:29-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , |

By J. David Cummings   Are we fast becoming Nazi Germany? Tune in, not tomorrow, but later today. Let me confess to you my naïveté: I thought the good among us were many. Now I fear we stumble, prayer-like, as if to our last breath: O, Dark Angel, afflict him who is the Anti-Savior. Everyone can [...]