Mike Jurkovic

tomorrow’s hours fall
scarlet leaves the bride’s trellis
a soldier’s young flesh

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NO KINGS Indivisible New Paltz · Mobilize **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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Poetry As Protest and Political Action returns this month to Elting Library (New Paltz NY) and Beahive (Beacon NY)

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Circling Planes hits the road this week. Join me if you can Thursday (Hudson NY) or Friday (Gardiner NY)

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war again poisons
perverts darks the mind the heart
the souls of nations

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skin of privilege You reap the numbers

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Body Cam Antebellum on the rise A clannish reckoning

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First Friday returns to in-person readings Friday March 6. 7pm

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Common Square (Lexington, 11/2/22) The blue wisdom sky beckons minute-men

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sideshow (masguerade hair) If you recall before the torpor

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caught amid grace and
rubble poets cuss the moon
our slapstick unclothed

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mortar in my hands
calcifies hardens my heart
the concrete of days

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Black and white image of an anti ICE/Trump rally in Des Moines Iowa. A sign can be seen reading NO ICE. © 2026 Michael F. Hiatt

Anti ICE Protest
Des Moines Iowa

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a rogue bossanova
holds my rapture my rancor
dispelled in its sway

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the storied stages
of Heaven elude me most
routinely this day

we share the gray scale
shadowbox strangers story
unfolds with sorrow

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‘A real tragedy’: Woman dies after being denied health care because she was pregnant A pregnant woman who was not seeking an abortion, was denied health care for her heart condition because she was pregnant and doctors did not want to risk harming the pregnancy. She died as a result. Her name was Ciji Graham and Pro Publica journalist Lizzie Presser reported on her story. “I think one of the things that's really disturbing in her medical records is that neither of the cardiologists that Graham saw spoke to her about her pregnancy and the risks of continuing it without getting the heart care that she needed,” she said. “And that silence around pregnancy, and its risks, that's being normalized by these bans is deeply, deeply concerning.” Georgetown law professor Michele Goodwin emphasizes that this is one of many tragedies that have taken place as a result of abortion bans. “We have these reproductive health care deserts throughout the United States, and we see the kind of suffering that's being reported, and then so much more that doesn't end up getting reported, that just simply gets lost in the mix of things,” she said. “And that's the real tragedy.”

“That silence around pregnancy, and its risks, that's being normalized by these [abortion] bans is deeply, deeply concerning,” said Pro Publica reporter Lizzie Presser. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social adds, “It's really horrific what we see coming out of Dobbs.” #velshi

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pacific trash vortex When I first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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outside of heaven
we weave sad peripheries
air hunger persists

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y head my soapbox
my off hour fractions dull
my words my fraught deeds

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Getting out and about to bring Circling Planes to the people! Here are the first of many readings. . .
Circling Planes will be available at all readings. But if you can't wait, it makes the perfect for gift Valentine's Day & President's Day. . . woodtstockarts.com

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afi afi another fucking idiot selling me pills

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next line If it all ends before the next line

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aloof alone my
empty threats never meant to
pester leave no mark

sideshow (masguerade hair) sideshow (masquerade hair)

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Dark Star Paradigm The worst book I ever read Took me years to

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First FRiday Zoom 2/6 7pm

Featured poets: Michael Hettich, Josephine LoRe, and Rokland County Poet Laureate Juan Pablo Mobili

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