Rust & Moth

A concise, spare poem.

New #poetry from James Champion: "Whittling".

what comes next | Rust & Moth I started hoarding faith in the lining of my gums. I scooped it out with my nails, layered it on my tongue, and left it there when I prayed beside his bedside. for nine nights, there were flood sirens...

New #poetry from Kianna Greene: "what comes next".

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it.

While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

Spring 2026 | Rust & Moth

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Panic is an uncut shrub / blocking a picture window

Hey, that's me!

A Canoe, | Rust & Moth oarless and no one to steer it, brims with rainwater from an atmospheric river ramming the earth three days before. The dirt beneath has dried. Three benches span the oblong pond like bridges and a corner...

New #poetry from Karen Bramblett: "A Canoe,".

When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great | Rust & Moth I am not remembering how oikos and logos join hands in The Song of the Earth, I am remembering the way my breath made frosted fairies in the air outside of the coffee shop on 14th avenue where I first...

New #poetry from Ariel Machell: "When Professor [ _ ] Says My Poor Memory Is Why I’ll Never Be Great".

November | Rust & Moth —for Elizabeth Rose Shaffer With leaves for the healing of nations maples pave the streets in gold, children shuffle feet on brightened earth —no need to look toward empty sky. It is not there. They...

New #poetry from Reyzl Grace: "November".

In November 2023, the Russian Supreme Court Declared the “International LGBTQ Movement” a Banned “Extremist Organization” | Rust & Moth Небо — как колокол, / Месяц — язык . . . The sky is like a bell, / and the moon, its tongue . . . — Sergei Esenin, “The Dove of Jordan” When I was born, the moon was …...

New #poetry from Reyzl Grace: "In November 2023, the Russian Supreme Court Declared the “International LGBTQ Movement” a Banned “Extremist Organization”".

Out of Season | Rust & Moth Beneath trees, glossy with rain, we walk among leaf litter, dawn rising out of the pond an orange bleed eating bits of haze. We walk through loamy odors heaved from earth, and twisted limbs reaching toward...

New #poetry from Maryfrances Wagner: "Out of Season".

Lactic Ode | Rust & Moth First taste we know and nourisher of life, the essence of the mammal and the mother, quarry of bone and skeletally white, erupting from the gorgeous breast and udder, elixir of warm-hearted things that...

New #poetry from Elijah Perseus Blumov: "Lactic Ode".

Sonnet for the Man Asleep on Stanwix Street | Rust & Moth His hands—settled in the cross deemed comely for corpses, X-ing the map of his body with the hideaway of heart—now fall, now rise, with chest with breath. His personal effects pile round him on the...

New #poetry from J Kramer Hare: "Sonnet for the Man Asleep on Stanwix Street".

Holy | Rust & Moth God is a pea stuck in my throat. Count the toddlers who swallow peas. Kiddos know better. My allergies flare up from walks. Trees. A kiddo screams. Panic comes from air. God is in strollers everywhere....

New #poetry from Matthew Harrison: "Holy".

Communion Is My Body | Rust & Moth The girl I used to be didn’t plan on the divorce, the cracked leather on a dusty Bible, condoms under the bed that pray for responsible lust, the mushrooms— the ones that let you meet God— and knees...

New #poetry from Nicole Shepherd: "Communion Is My Body".

Follansbee | Rust & Moth I snatch a twenty from my grandma’s purse, intent to roam the town for half the night. She’ll never know it’s missing, never guess I’m slipping through the side yards in the dark and leaping over...

New #poetry from A. Michael Schultz: "Follansbee".

Translation | Rust & Moth I learned how to make tea in the wake of bad news, to steep each day’s tragedy for three minutes so it might shed a little heat, brew into something less bitter. When I told my parents my marriage was...

New #poetry from Bunny Goodjohn: "Translation".

Sundown After All the Guns | Rust & Moth They say the moths come out at dusk. And they do: white smudges swirling in the porch-light’s tired halo over dead grass, over the yard where sorrow settles like pollen. We sit on sagging plastic chairs,...

New #poetry from David Anson Lee: "Sundown After All the Guns".

Patience | Rust & Moth Light tears itself apart over the lake— the Perseids dragging their bright incisions. I believed you. I believed the lake could swallow a man like a fish swallows the hook, could hold him under fifty-two...

New #poetry from C. Sessums @csessums: "Patience".

Note Found with the Urn | Rust & Moth Too heavy to pick up, impossible to carry. It weighs down the chest of drawers upstairs. My hands hold each other still while you’re a whirling sky, a night of rustling leaves, starless as the chosen...

New #poetry from Ron Stottlemyer: "Note Found with the Urn".

How a House Burns | Rust & Moth A struck match. Smoke droning in the nostrils. Central figure: carpenter—but rhinestoned— that half-hammer-musician beatboxing some 2X4 that will eventually, along with the skeleton of this house-in-progress...

New #poetry from Michelle McMillan-Holifield: "How a House Burns".

Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center A photo of Ramos wearing a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack as he was being detained went viral, sparking national criticism.

“U.S. District Judge Fred Biery excoriated the federal government, saying the case ‘has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.’” www.ms.now/news/liam-ra...

As a secret police force terrorizes our communities, Senate Democrats can’t cave and give the GOP more time to fund the regime’s death squads.

Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible

Our job now is to make sure Senate Democrats keep holding the line to get ICE Out For Good. Every Democrat must insist on real limits and accountability for the regime’s secret police before any DHS funding bill is approved.

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

Yes. "The things that make us happy make us wise," says John Crowley in support.

At the very least, Senate Democrats must use their leverage to disarm ICE, prohibit it from using racial or ethnic profiling, end arrest quotas, and remove agents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits.

Please call your senators now at 202-224-3121 and say NO more funding for ICE.

How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond What Minnesota’s immigrant communities need from you now.

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help: