(The black mold fungus Stachybotrys chartarum was originally discovered on the wall of a house in Prague in 1837. The average person inhales at least 40 conidia (fungus spores) per hour.)
Action.
I zoom into the vulnerable opening, quiver shot.
Curb is a bump, tender green clad, a carpet thick,
Dry patches, razor burn. Over the occluded lines
of sidewalk, grey engraving into riotous weeds.
Sun shines on my back, bird song in the city,
I don’t want to wait till the moment of my dying
to realize what I have ignored all my life.
I want you to climb me. Climb me because I …
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize …
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize …
In 2013, my wife and I rented an apartment in Výtoň, a classic urban neighborhood south of the tourist-packed city center of Prague. This wasn’t my first move to the …
Every year, we award the annual Zócalo Poetry Prize to the poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo is pleased to recognize …
Mark DiPietro, recently reclassified as the only kid on the street with divorced parents, reaped the benefits when his absent father returned at Christmas with Globetrotter tickets. Classified as best …
1. I walked down the street towards the subway attentive to the shifting geography ahead, to the uneven sidewalk, which looked as though an active fault line ran below. …
It’s all uncles and cousins, proud black men of urban banter in a small backyard, car parts in a strange box that stains. I watched those rough hands rummage through …
rain is wetter, colder, alley cats are hungrier, each day breaking open like a crow-barred lock, the sky a grainy screen, the windy corners, and each night, heavy husbands shut out …
