it all depends, a haiku by Tyrone McDonald / The Mainichi Daily News
it all depends on a dandelion seed
the color of frost
—
Tyrone McDonald
(Brooklyn, NY, USA)
January 31, 2013
(Mainichi Japan)
The Mainichi Daily News
Archive for January, 2013
it all depends on a dandelion seed
the color of frost
—
Tyrone McDonald
(Brooklyn, NY, USA)
January 31, 2013
(Mainichi Japan)
The Mainichi Daily News
even the crow,
usually hateful but
in the morning snow . . .
– Bashō
(日頃にくき 烏も雪の あしたかな higoro nikuki karasu mo yuki no ashita kana)
translation by Jan Walls
sensory-neural impulse interactions among
bio-geo-eco-chemo-astro- and cultural forms. It exerts
the immediacy of a photo (gram), light sensitive
photograph paper compiling one of a kind,
camera-less molecules, light interactions with
an as yet unnamed untamed something
that piece of
poem becoming,
Amy’s San Diego essay
for Amy King
Each particle has a gazillion sides, each cell
a bell. How does death smell?
salt makes the cell, the tongue, to shrink.
There’s a wound
somewhere, that hurts each
time it is touched
or not, touched, but yes touch
that the words may, wrestled burn.
Donna Fleischer is an award-winning poet and author of three chapbooks in both open and Japanese-derived forms. Her poems appear in print and online journals and anthologies worldwide, and are forthcoming in EOAGH, Exit Strata, Kō, Lilliput Review, Naugatuck River Review, and the anthologyPoets for Living Waters: An International Response to the 2010 BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico(BlazeVOX Books). She curates content daily for poetry and for the earth at her blog word pond.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Holds Law of the Rights of Mother Earth
passed by Bolivia’s Plurinational Legislative Assembly.
Bolivia Passes Law Which Declares the Earth Has Equal Rights
Full Original Spanish Translation: http://bit.ly/hnjihc
Though I go to you
ceaselessly along dream paths,
the sum of those trysts
is less than a single glimpse
granted in the waking world.
Ono no Komachi (c.825 – c.900)
bamboo and plum blossom
PETA Blasts Iran’s 1960s-Era Space Program / PETA.org
Who else will speak for them, the animals? – Donna Fleischer