Pride Power by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] Our fellow creatures, widest sense,including primates, human kind,but all in sea or earth, in air,companions, mutual partnership. Each race, genetic tracery,in season, seek off-spring, forward leap,to make their mark, leave legacy,willed imprint, pattern, future type. Vast multitudes we’re...

Sting in the Tail by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] The naïve main character cast,employed and played in every script,both fairy tales, all myths rehearsed -yet we ourselves bear title rôle. Unwary, gullible, or gulled,beguiled by trusting those who dupe;avoiding confrontation, feared -too obvious to be embraced,because we...

Water Marks by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] I’m lured into the water, songof Syrens drawing on, though warnedit’s where the sprites live ’mongst the fins,and currents flow undisciplined. So verse emerges, freer formno crits in swim, advantage ofpoems for fish, amphibians.But will those Syrens let...

Passed Memories by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] This fall of cloak on paths aheadreminds that recall of the pasthas mazed into a hazy place.Recurring mare, that daily task,in synapse smog; rememberingis a foggy journey, blind space. Slow driving into winter dusk,this forecast cage without escape...