by zamora | October 17, 2023
“Walking meditation is first and foremost a practice to bring body and mind together peacefully.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh “But what if I should discover that…the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
For Christos Georgiou In the dark long ago I heard the howl.Upridge, whorls of sound above Mad Mare Hill. Like nostrils sniffing an unwanted scent I could turn then from that contour of night, let ear and eye shape a day’s bright chant.Then in brilliant sunset gleam I...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
An embarrassment of riches is nonexistent when the wealthiest soil’s only devotion is ego. The conquering forefathers established the motto Every land for itself. But making it rain is equally beneficial for both the rainmaker and recipient; there’s satisfaction in...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Pandemic Rhapsody The planet is a prisonEach household a cellWe swim in a sea of unknowing The planet is a forestEach household a treeWe gather in the shade of many branches The planet is an oceanEach household a boatWe search for a mast on the horizon The planet is a...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
after Remedios Varo insert straws into fruits and flowers, drink the lifeblood of a watermelon,a tomato, a five-petaled rose. Their faces appear as expressionless as businessmenabout to go under; their new suits woven from subsidized chaffs of wheat, are already...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Awaiting The seed catalogueis another form of advent. Comparing the pictures,guessing at names,measuring the beds,buying the mulchand fertilizer,getting out the jadedtrowel and hoefor another go at growth. There’s alwaysthat gap of trustbetween what we doand what we...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
The Golden Legacy Comic Book History The Golden Legacy Comics were the brainchild of Bertram A Fitzgerald; they featured black history in the form of a comic-book strip. There is a feature on Toussaint L’Overture, Martin Luther King, La Amistad, the Saga of...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
To Franny Choi’s Choi Jeong Min: the classroom split, black on one, white on the other,Like kitchen magnets forced to kissthey repelled and I was caughtin the net of their polar-racial fields I felt the tattoos of eyes on my skin,blinking through black and...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
fereodm tehy airervd by peapr arilpnae / alolwed olny the mxaumimmniiumm / the coleths wrmaed on their bkacs / lesonss mormeziedvia duolbe wekeonlg eglinsh cuosre / a ntoe taht raed i lvoe youvrery mcah / and nueonral tircks porcetinjg the psat itno pesrnet...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Joys and Concerns Please pray for our son in prisonwe want to say sitting in our pewlistening to others sure our words will collapse in our own little cell. But when we kneelour words escape in blue jumpsuitsentering...
