“please stop this suffering.
Even as I spoke,
I knew I asked for too much.”
-Jennifer Franklin,
from “Dark Prayer During Two Wars”
“There is a change in the atmosphere.”
-Lao Rupert,
from “Unleashed” (After “The Second Homecoming” by William Butler Yeats)
“Without being marginalized. Without being objectified. Without being subjugated.”
-Prince McNally,
from “Graphic List Poem: She Manifesto”
The Marbled Sigh 