VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good

Moments Like This Never Last A recorded message assures me for what seems the twentieth time that my call is important. I want wings made of eyes before the hold music returns – “Winter” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Somewhere in the future, a frighteningly cadaverous woman in blue scrubs who says her name is AprilContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Tali Cohen Shabtai

Go gullibly after the symbol Why are you so proud of the flag of your homeland?  A flag that was not born at its beginning if I am accurate It preceded your birth substantially from 1897 and until your arrival It seems to me that you are not the son of the roots of ZionismContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Tali Cohen Shabtai”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: BEAU BLUE

this sadness is an ancient creature A year of plague, A year of fire storms, of the deaths of clever friends and brothers, of being a refugee, of watching confused citizens, watching the angry mob swarm. pestilence and famine draw differences so sharp inequalities come glaring into life and death relief the mob is hereContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: BEAU BLUE”