Crossroad Vertigo

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THE FALL AND RISE OF JULIAN ASSANGE
...the slow motion crucifixion of a journalist and publisher.
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Copeland Morris
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THE WHITE GOOSE
When my heart hangs low, how the white goose rises; And brings to a hush, the careless, languishing sky. In the shimmer of time that buoyant body is…
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Copeland Morris
SNAKE AT THE RAIN BARREL
a curious sonnet
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Copeland Morris
ON BROKEN SLEEP
On broken sleep the world lets out a moan As rubble conceals the flesh, its perilous deep That burned one time like a bluesy saxophone... Horrific…
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Copeland Morris
THE BRUTE HYPOCRISY OF EMPIRE
In October, Texas cities from Dallas to Houston, voiced condemnation of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel that killed around 1,100.
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Grayson Harper
THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS BROUGHT LOW
else lasker-schüler A SINGLE MAN A single man can be a whole nation Yet he becomes an earth With its own heaven when He nurtures the old and noble…
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Copeland Morris
TROUBLED HOUSES ARE FULL OF SECRETS
Pompeii and Herculaneum slept under the indifferent spell of moonlight after Vesuvius and its apocalyptic eruptions subsided; but below the inferno…
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Copeland Morris
BLUES FOR A NARWHAL
a sonnet--for my sisters, Jan and Jill
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Copeland Morris
Having just endured the Democratic National Convention I now sit here in a drunken stupor
Well, it’s two in the morning and the balloons are falling all over the world; meanwhile, it’s just me and the dead soldier facing many a long sleepless…
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Grayson Harper
THE SUM OF ALL WAR CRIMES
think of others
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Copeland Morris
Legerdemain
a sonnet for Becky
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Copeland Morris
Informed Consent Is Not For Lightweights
Unprincipled power is blind in the matter of its own overreach.
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Copeland Morris
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