SMALL KINDNESSES by Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris SMALL KINDNESSES I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.And sometimes, when you spill lemonsfrom your grocery bag, someone else will help youpick them up. Mostly, we …

Jarod K. Anderson – Water

“The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance.” Jarod K Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

Sonia Sanchez

Poem for July 4, 1994 It is essential that Summer be grafted tobones marrow earth clouds blood theeyes of our ancestors.It is essential to smell the beginningwords where Washington, Madison, Hamilton,Adams, Jefferson assembled amid cries of:        “The people lack of information”       “We grow more and more skeptical”       “This Constitution is a triple-headed monster”  …