Malinda Poetry

Explorers long ago — or brigands, conquistadors or spice-bandits — brought Plumerian gifts beads for the heathens  or a little piece of home...

They say there are nodes pinpoints on sole each to an organ linked Therapeutic  it must be so the practitioner says in the physiology of bel...

In the divine chronicles  so-called and so-believed the faithful transcribers  placed The Word  in elemental maps — mountain they marked riv...

Someone in the long ago in ecclesiastical shorthand put god in his place and the devil too: banished evil  to the bowels of the earth  and t...

The benign Other of war immemorial fixation of our tribe: I have seen it gloss the lips of tyrant and butcher  in the aftermath of conquest ...

  The Batumi of chess is peaceful  the swords crossed are sharp  inflict pain, obtain victory  wounds that heal soon enough The Batumi of Ad...

Mark Knopfler’s long fingers have grown to engulfs civilizational divide, tenacious fingernails pick at a puppeteer’s dangling strings   An ...