Fissured Tongue Series
Libra
by Sophia Terazawa
Fissured Tongue Series Vol VII | May 2026
by Sophia Terazawa
Fissured Tongue Series Vol VII | May 2026
"Covidia" by Michael Thompson. Mixed media, 18 x 11 inches, 2021
Libra
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As early as October, so too despair runs out. Mutual,
the blade of grass, the look that says: Between you and me, I’d rather burn up. What drone doesn’t stand behind any of this? Which trucks come and go? Volunteers outnumber the dead who measure and answer for stunned silence. Don’t declare allegiance, wartime’s vassal shield. Here runs our latest breeze, amaryllis, gone dormant, rope around the plain isolation of it. Seasons well up, crushed by a floe strait. So too freshwater dreams of landing home. |
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About the Author
brice maiurro is a Colorado poet, workshop facilitator, storyteller and artist. He is the Editor-in-Chief of South Broadway Press. He has authored four collections of poetry, including The Heart is an Undertaker Bee, published by Middle Creek Publishing. His work has been published by Voice & Verse, Tiny Spoon, and Twenty Bellows. Themes of his work include human connection, ecology, and finding the divine in the mundane. *About the Work
"As of late, I've been really enamored of short spiritual poems by poets, among others, like Rumi and Hafiz. I wrote this one on the light rail on the way to airport after reading some Rumi. I am realizing that many of my poems as of late reflect my journey into middle age (and parenthood as a companion to this middle chapter of my life). Beyond middle age, I think I'm old enough to see that social change is a spiral, rather than the linear climb I had hoped it was in my younger years. That being said, I believe in revolution and that it changes us and the world around us, and that inspired these words." * |
About the Artist
Michael Thompson is a Chicago-based artist working in a variety of mediums including print-making, collage, kites, kinetic sculpture, memory jugs and fake postage stamps among them. "The collage is inspired and informed through the isolation of the pandemic, they are a rather random assembly." www.michaelthompsonart.com |
