Andrew Name

Jan 2016

Hi It's Haliyah

Ten

And to think-
to remember in these ten seconds-
that we screamed till our throats
were torn and tattered.
Now knowing none of it
was necessary
and regretting how righteous
it felt ripping out the pages
we could have written to fill the blankness
before darkness came down with its iron fist.

Jan 2016

Chelsea Chavez

Untitled

in a studded wood, you river
sapless stream of spruce bark

-no ailment
-no midwife for the sediment

in a black mirror, the seer
needled to the tree-

two ravens

I know what my future holds

watch as the horse balks
white rind eyes

hopeless as stars

Jan 2016

am i ee

wee hours of the morning

the delicious silence
forms tucked away
in beds
dreaming sleeping dreams

the town silent
dark
only the night
shift toils away

and even they
sleep

the sky hidden
by a blanket of clouds
rain paused

a peaceful heart
breathes in
deeply

thoughts abated
warm messages
waiting

an army of wonderful
humans
reaching out to
one another

bringing love and joy
into a little corner of another
part of this little
planet

she spins
out in space
green and blue and white

dear dear Mother Earth
so small when seen from above
so huge when seen from below

peals of laughter ring across her
sobs of sorrow water her

ever there
ever here

we are all one
here on this little
spinning rock

wake up and
be the love
be the light
be the compassion

simply be
in peace
in stillness
in silence
in solitude

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