—for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Fourteen chairs loiter, emptied, no young bodies adjusting for the next lesson, hand-raising, class-clown antic, contemplative talk, pat show of teen contempt, rhythm beaten with pencil, palm, bouncing knee, jouncing heel, wise-crack, step in the impossible problem never to be solved. Instead, more of the same news, […]
D.R. James
D. R. James has taught college writing, literature, and peace-making for 36 years and lives in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His most recent of nine collections are Flip Requiem (Dos Madres Press), Surreal Expulsion (The Poetry Box), and If god were gentle (Dos Madres Press). His micro-chapbook All Her Jazz is printable-for-folding at the Origami Poems Project. amazon.com/author/drjamesauthorpage
OK, Here’s What We Do: An Allegory
The allegory idea came first, actually. I was thinking about how, and whether, everyone and everything could somehow get along in such a divided socio-political scene, and when the players entered in, I thought about the old dramatic allegories, like Everyman, that would personify concepts and groups. Now I had this older genre kicking around for […]
The 27th of January, 2017
—after Kinnel A Friday (the day of Frigg, Norse goddess of wisdom) that sags gray as brains, the day closing this long week since an uncertain absurdity began to un-settle itself in— (blurting like boils from under maize-ish, cirrocumular mesh, ranting, being ranted, mouthing black smoke, inhaling black hearts, splaying deal-breakers like pollutants burping out […]