by Jonathon Medeiros
A kumu is a teacher.
She is a tree, the base, the trunk, the root,
The source, the beginning of a braid.
She is a plant in the mud.
Kūmū is a fish. Continue reading
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25 Entries Found for ‘Kumu’
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Paradise Zero
by Eric Paul Shaffer
Paradise, friends, is a joke played by poets
on patrons, the restless, and the gullible.
Paradise leaves nothing to be desired,
everything to the imagination. Paradise is
a hole in the head, in the heart, in the planet Continue reading
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My Father’s Country
by Arya F. Jenkins
Eight years old I stood in
My red bathing suit bottoms on black soil
Enshrouded in a chapel of the
Largest greenest leaves I’d ever seen
Next to the pink ranch house in Key Biscayne
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Broken Friendship: Solve 4 Why
by Mel Ruth
Decrease it down to measurable parts: how
many DVD cases fit into a trash bag? (multiply by four
then add a bloodied scrape against soft shins from the rotten
dresser). If I have three half-used
sketchbooks and ten broken pencils, how many ripped Continue reading
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A Real Question with No Real Answers
by Kurt Luchs
What is hope?
A moss that grows
silent and unseen
on any surface,
a light that becomes visible
only after your eyes
have adjusted to the darkness,
a note that hangs in the air
after the bird has flown,
a green shoot erupting
from a dead stump. Continue reading
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