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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
SHARE Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Cartography
When navigating the Seas of Life, take care not to confuse the tools of navigation with your destination.
SHARE Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Bromide
Global Social Democracy is being promoted by the "left" side of the global elite as the new face of capitalism after neoliberals trashed its reputation.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 25, 2009 Fat Man and Little Boy
The US and Israel are the Fat Man and Little Boy of global destruction. Only Earth itself can stop them.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 23, 2009 The Loyalty Oath
Concessions demanded of the United Auto Workers are essentially the same as the loyalty oath to be demanded of Palestinian Israeli citizens. Both demand submission to the boot of the ruling class on your neck.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 22, 2009 IDF - Israeli Defense Fantasy
The erasure of Israel as a topic from the Durbin Conference on racism enables the Israeli "Defense" Force to carry out Israel's apartheid agenda with impunity.
SHARE Saturday, April 18, 2009 Seeing Aphrodite in April
The inability to let go of youth, of spring, requires not only that we be eternal adolescents, but prematurely old-stick-in-the-muds.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 18, 2009 Instrument of Power
Rich&Powerful, Inc. have a union, all right, and they want to make sure we don't get one, too. And to that end they'll do anything, literally anything, to undermine the solidarity of America's, and the world's, working people.
SHARE Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Before the Flowers (at Colgate University)
Pregnant tension, and enthusiastic anticipation is in the air - and the character - of all who wait impatiently for the flowers of Spring.
SHARE Monday, April 13, 2009 MUMBO JUMBO
Both religion and patriotism are scams, engineered to the same end as the current banking "crisis" in order to transfer all wealth to the top of the economic heap.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 10, 2009 Worship of Eostre
A poem for Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Painters' Palette (Impressionists of Spring)
Spring begins with dots and daubs of "paint" in leaves and flowers to come, presenting us with an Impressionist work of art in Nature.
SHARE Saturday, April 4, 2009 Stampede!
April showers bring may flowers, when they aren't the showdown between thunder and lightning that seems like Nature has our names on a Wanted Poster.
SHARE Friday, March 27, 2009 Those People
It's cold and shameful out there on the Food Bank Distribution line.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Santa Fraud
Myths like that of Santa Claus, lies told to children, set them up to expect betrayal by "authority", facilitating the transfer of their loyalty and trust to corporations.
SHARE Saturday, March 21, 2009 pro invidia
The poor are created, deliberately, by the rich, who are so insecure, so devoid of morality, that they need to have those "less fortunate" envy them and believe it is their divine, Darwinian right to do so.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 13, 2009 Recess
Human children, and adults, are made for learning.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Above the Storm
As Spring washes away winter, I grow impatient, but still in awe of the changing of the seasons.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 6, 2009 The Brides of March
I am no longer amused by snow. When will it be Spring?