AIDS Warrior by Marcie Eanes
Blood tests, HIV, T-cell count AZT, drug cocktails public tears All forgotten until jarring memories come crashing back when seeing an AIDS fighter in living color…. (c) Marcie Eanes 2011, All rights reserved
Blood tests, HIV, T-cell count AZT, drug cocktails public tears All forgotten until jarring memories come crashing back when seeing an AIDS fighter in living color…. (c) Marcie Eanes 2011, All rights reserved
How many ways do we divide ourselves from each other? Race, gender, age, height, weight, sexual preference Standard divisions for basic prejudice. Politics, religion, profession income, residence, more The next wall Only the human mind devises intricate subdivisions Until we all resemble tiny squares on graph paper. Propelling dark emotions and desperate actions Divided Us […]Read Post ›
My dreams are curving, speeding rushing into gaps in dream traffic. Despite the liquid in my veins that tells the nerves no trauma happened despite the liquid in my veins that tricks my memory to forget — my raped veins know the needle penetrated my carved flesh knows the scalpel incised […]Read Post ›
she meant what she said when she quoted Hitler I don’t think all the men in Philly could have held her down – seven is far too few and her tattoos in an ancient language, say “Such is life” the same words she spoke the day her innocence died and she meant what she said […]Read Post ›
(for Cassie) the shrieking and pain and later tantrums and tears weeks where he would eat almost nothing bizarre behaviors pacing with whispers hammering stakes into ant hills grabbing for humming birds always afraid your beautiful son would run away to where no one would care in the end he […]Read Post ›
Poem in honor of Kurt Cobain’s death.
A poem with a question, answered through Leonard Peltier’s book My Life Is My Sun Dance.
A poem by Mark Brawn, as printed in the first issue of The Harbinger Asylum.
A poem of Mark Brawn, published in The Harbinger Asylum issue One.
A poem by Mark Brawn, featured poet of the first issue of The Harbinger Asylum.