
Ceres, Goddess of Corn, grieved and raged
for her stolen daughter. They say she withheld
the harvest. But corn was already here...
Print This Post 
Ceres, Goddess of Corn, grieved and raged
for her stolen daughter. They say she withheld
the harvest. But corn was already here...
Print This Post 
Homemade snow pants of thick wool, ice caked on my jacket sleeves and on my mittens: I head out with my best friend, Rita doll...
Print This Post 
It was around 9:55 a.m. I was waiting for the library to open.
I saw a cute Ethiopian girl coming toward me. She had dark brown skin, short hair, and a pretty baby face.
“What time is it?” She asked me. Her English accent was very good.
Print This Post 
We speak of it
as though it were a place,
a battlefield strewn
with corpses,
a burial ground
of shattered statues
hooded with snow.
Print This Post 
By Kathleen Vellenga
You resist when I take you down, refusing
to end your dance with the October breeze.
Flapping, twirling in your many threaded cotton
gowns, which contain the smells of maple, grass
and the geese sound, which blew in
and won’t release.

1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • african american • ancestors • baseball • Como Park • Como Zoo • events • fiction • History • hmong • immigration • irish • latino • lowertown • lowertown reading jam • memories • Mississippi River • music venues • native american • parks • People • Places • poetry • police • recipe • saint paul saints • snow • somali • sports • summer • swede hollow • transportation • video • weather • west side • winter • winter carnival • women • writers • youth



