Taste the Edge

CHICKEN BOT is an unknown artist who lives in an alternative reality with five taxidermist squirrels, a small bonsai named Steve and a group of potted plants who whisper life’s secrets to her each morning. In real life, Chicken Bot…

This image, to me, represents true freedom, liberty and diversity. Everyone has their version of patriotism; unfortunately a nationalistic version is pending in the current administration. However, I believe that the truest version of an American Patriot is one who…

The child in Yemen was 12-3; the same gilded age of brilliance and fight my son will be in 4+5 years. A tender yet defiant age of nine years, (10 summers) - aptly filled with friends and fears, bullies and…

The following pieces, "In the wake," "so intimate," and "There is," by J.I. Kleinberg are visual poems from an ongoing series of collages built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design.       Artist, poet,…

*Previously published in Alligator Jupiter, Fall 2002, and Poets Against the War, March 2003 You decide to paint something, a portrait, say, of Hitler reclining. Grove of red roses. Blue sky padded with glowing white cumuli. Your daughter’s doll between…

“if i had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” —President Obama ​ if we can be sisters you pressin hot comb to my hair while al green whispers in memphis heat me fussin tellin you ain’t no boy gonna…