We’ll Build

We’ll Build by Tony Burfield I’ll build a fire tonight against the cold and against technology and against the federal reserve. We’ll build a fire tonight, crouching in flannel shirts and Achilles boots, fire in the brick box in the … Continue reading

Stampede

Stampede by Barbara Lightner Hold back, runaway stallion, headstrong, determined upon your course. We have too long pastured indifference and its easy silence feeding your power, your pounding hoofbeat. We will no longer hold to inertia’s doom; are not so … Continue reading

Apocalypse Night

Apocalypse Night by Barbara Lightner High thoughts must have high language. –Aristophanes They would      crack thunder, erupt with the fierceness of volcanoes,           become power      in a righteousness of apocalypse. What we got      was small rain,           the piss-conduit of frogs. Listen! … Continue reading