ellipsis ©Vincent Hostak November 6, 2024 …hope… both precedes and follows the ellipsis. Three dark specks conjoined which, alone, work only to end the conversation. Alone, dark and soundless, like faces of tiny wells which somehow found each other on the landscape then chose to stand together, saying: “by this omission, we mean more,” andContinue reading “…ellipsis…”
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Song for the Suffering
Tell me: Which is the safest room in which to hide in a burning house? Song for the Suffering © Vincent Hostak October 2023 I heard you say: “I refuse to take sides.” Perhaps you meant: your heart is with the suffering. It is a blister clinging to the wall, this wall no prayers mayContinue reading “Song for the Suffering”
Privilege Reveal Party
a poem by Vincent Hostak “Satire is a lesson, parody is a game” Vladimir Nabokov “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities” Chen Chen Welcome to our Privilege Reveal Party We name the unknowable as if each were Aspects of light we divine each new day Troubling little howContinue reading “Privilege Reveal Party”
Wild, Abandoned 