Author: Tony Robles
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Gun Talk
And here, 3000 miles away in the warehouse where I work, they are talking guns
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Las Flores
In Hendersonville a community comes out early Sunday morning to honor the earth, the soil; a place to plant songs and poetry and a vision of sharing and depending on one another. Our sustenence is the dream that is shared, a dream that is not owned by one person but collectively conceived.
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Student Art on Display
The Arts Council of Henderson County showcased student artists grades 3 through 12 in its yearly contest on April 14th. The art showcase and contest was held at the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville, North Carolina
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Cardboard Poem Written on a Warehouse Wall
Why not get into this box? it said, there’s enough room for you to get away, to hide I thought about it as I held a box cutter in my handsWhy not get into this box? it said, there’s enough room for you to get away, to hide I thought about it as I held…
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Overheated Heart
I see the smoke in your car for a long time, the younger one says They get ouf of the truck and tell me to pop the hood
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Review: A Gathering of the Tribes–The Black Lives Matter Issue
Memory is honored, the names of those slain by police held up in a light of poetry, the fire of strength raging from our streets to the page…
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Warehouse
A poem by Tony Robles
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Assembling a Wheelchair
And somewhere a wheel chair is being put together while a world tilts on its axis trying to find its bearings
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Open Heart
I just had open heart, he says We take the wheelchair from the bed of his pickup and the man’s wife sits in the truck On the dashboard is a red pillow in the shape of a heart