Author name: Rattle

Audio, Poems, Poets Respond

The American Political Sestina

“…the American political poem is a safe poem.”
—from “Political Poetry” by Kwame Dawes

A daughter asks her mother if humanitarian is the
same thing as volunteer. They are an American
family – a wine-salesman, a teacher, far from political.

Audio, Poems

Mythomania

For years, the only way to speak was to lie. Have you brushed today? Yes. Are you still in bed? No. Have you eaten since yesterday? Yes.

Poems, Young Poets

Thaathaa

My papa’s papa used to run after the wooden cart of prasadam
each dawn for food
Young feet bleeding over the rough road.

Audio, Poems, Prompt Poems, Tributes

Bestiary

All my life I’ve wanted to knit an aardvark
not this endless succession of zebras—
black and white wool seems sterile
and the stripes never come out lifelike.

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