A FUGITIVE FAMILY ~

 

Zayd Ayers Dohn (center), with his parents Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers and younger brother Malik while living underground

R E A D   M E

    Norton 2026

THIS IS IT ~

 

       Anne Applebaum

MARY ANN CAWS ~

 

  R E A D   M E

Reaktion Books, 2024

YOU'RE NO BIG DEAL, GRUNGE 1984-1994 ~

 

WISDOM AROUND THE CAMPFIRE NOW 57 YEARS AGO ~

 

Movie Title: Easy Rider © 1969 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Terry Southern, screenwriter

Peter Fonda, producer/actor

Dennis Hopper, director/actor

Jack Nicholson, actor

GIL SCOTT-HERON AND HIS DEVIL ~

 

Gil Scott-Heron's video for "Me And The Devil", out Feb 22. Taken from his forthcoming album "I'm New Here"

NAJWAN DARWISH ~

 

We Never Stop

I have no country to return to,

no country to be banished from,

a tree whose roots

are a running river:

It dies if it stops

it dies if it doesn't.

On the cheeks and arms of death

I spent the best of my days,

and the land I lost each day

I gained each day anew.

The people had a single country,

but mine multiplied in loss,

renewed itself in absence.

Its roots, like mine, are water:

If it stops it withers,

if it stops it dies.

Both of us are running

with a river of sunbeams,

a river of gold dust

that rises from ancient wounds,

and we never stop.

We keep on,

never thinking to pause

so our two paths can meet.

I have no country to be banished from,

no country to return to:

I'll die if I stop,

I'll die if I keep going.

___________________________

No One Will Know You Tomorrow

translation by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Yale 2024

THE LAST TIME (THE ROLLING STONES) ~

 

R E A D   M E

TALKING HEADS TONIGHT ~

 

   Rhino 2026

HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Fab Press, 2025

     Expanded Edition

O DEATH ~

 

                                                                  cover art: Eric Von Schmidt

DEVIN JOHNSTON ~

 

Late October

Kids crowd the stoop

backs to a darkened house

so close to nothing

yet incurious

*

Across the brick facade

a kestrel

races to meet

its shadow

*

Hawk and starling sport

through all this rigging

of blocks and lines

counterweights and arbors

the street

a theater set for storms

*  

A chunk of sycamore

adorns the telephone line

branch and trunk long gone

stump a faint impression

just that cylinder

faintly nautical

hung in a crown of air

*

Triple your chances to win

Take it at twenty-to-one

No money down

No faith in desire

*

Cashing out

the bartender croons

If you see me getting smaller

Trobar clus

Closing time

*

Two boys lug

a Samsonite

full of leaves

across the lawn

*

A starling whets

her thorn of beak

and song gives way

to sunlight on concrete

___________________________

Bright Thorn

poems 2000-2026

FSG, 2026