Poetry

Poetry is the only form of writing that touches primarily on the emotional spectrum of human experience rather than communicating via mental constructs. I love that about it.

Justice
Jeannette de Beauvoir Jeannette de Beauvoir

Justice

This poem won the Outermost Poetry Contest judged by Marge Piercy.

The planes flew into Manhattan and the white people asked,

why us?
We thought we were safe.
Living in the luxury of that delusion, we baked Disneyland cakes
and God wore the red, white, and blue; our anger when proven wrong
was so immense it engulfed

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