Tag: Poetry
What We Are
I can’t reconcile what we are
with what we are.
We can love with incredible passion
and hate with searing intensity.
We idolize and brutalize our children
and sacrifice...
The Poetic Hill
J.D. Smith is a District writer who has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative...
Being Free
We don't want to be human anymore!
Not the animal part of human, anyway.
Three and a half billion years of evolving
into what we don't want...
The Answer
If man, as a species,
rises to the occasion
And takes the heavens
by storm,
If we triumph over every element
and elemental force
That reality has contrived,
that endless universes
Have...
