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A Colossal Crisis

By | 2020-03-31T11:24:02-07:00 April 2nd, 2020|Categories: Issue 107: 02 April 2020|Tags: , , , |

By Shawn Aveningo-Sanders ~ after Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”   When brazen towers fell, we wept in disbelief— our great nation attacked upon her own shore. We obeyed our leaders who hailed, “Shop More! That’s how we’ll heal.” And we found some relief in the stuff we hoarded, albeit the feeling brief. We shop-till-we-drop, as [...]

Liberty Turns Her Back

By | 2018-12-11T17:30:11-08:00 December 13th, 2018|Categories: Issue 77: 13 December 2018|Tags: , |

A ghazal by Shawn Aveningo Sanders   Step on a crack; you’ll break your mother’s back. Cross the border at midnight; they call you wetback. Pick the apples, the nuts, the oranges from trees, up down up down up down—such a strong back! Share stories by the fire in your native tongue, how it stirs such [...]