by Kathleen Raygoza
Poetry
Summer Storm
This is a summer storm, pop-up of a whopper, talk of the town. Open the windows let the cooled atmosphere condition stifled air. This is a thrill electric to the storm-starved Texan far from home.
MoreYour Jesus (who dons a red cap)
Your Jesus who dons a red cap and brandishes the American flag on the steps of an earthen fortress to demand the restoration of God’s nation is not my Jesus. Your Jesus cover boy of your eleventh hour attempt to wake sleepers dead to the demise of God’s chosen democracy is not my Jesus. Your […]
More3. Montgomery, Alabama is Haunted
Montgomery, Alabama is haunted. By lonesome whippoorwills among the whisperings and the camellias and the pines. Steepled shadows on Dexter Avenue and the cold bronze likeness of the little woman who started it all. On her corner she stands no tired bone in her body, demurely resistant. Hank by the Riverboat emulates the blue spirit […]
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