![The Beresford Tomb](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
Thomas Beresford fought under Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt. He settled in Fenny Bentley in Derbyshire with his wife Agnes, an heiress with…
![Love Affair in Poppy](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
I read your message in a Garda cafe, miles away from your German stopover. You were en route to fight some war, that lasted longer…
![Autumn](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
The way she says “you naughty man” when he brushes past her derrière all adds up. So he puts on “Say Wonderful Things To Me”…
![1989 School Yard Shooting](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/schoolshooting-470x140.jpg)
The voices spoke when he was alone,
instructing him to carve words with a pocketknife
to the side of an assault rifle.
![Tripod](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
Windy shore, speckled seagulls,
a black-haired girl with azure eyes, climbing on rocks,
the gray-haired father’s pale hands wiping her mouth.
![Birbhum: Days and Nights](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
Afternoon The Bathroom In the bathroom, The plastic bucket stares red, The white walls walk bare, This naked bar of soap, Wants to forever live…
![Ode to the Tree of Life](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
After moringa, also known as drumstick tree or horseradish tree For my auntie, my father’s younger sister, with her liver disease “Let thy food by…
![Turkish Memoire](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
I Wind blew in the dry reeds beside Lake Van while granules of sand stung my face and hands, the hourglass of time fallen on…
![A Woman Arrested in Turkey](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/POETRY-470x140.jpg)
While a woman’s dragged flailing from the street tonight (a protester, I see her teeth and jeans), my mother takes the dog around the block…
![The Concert](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/concert-470x140.jpg)
It’s a rainy night I’m going to a concert at the arena the roof is leaking but the music patches it up.
![From the River Ravi](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/riverravi-470x140.jpg)
The river is hurt,
a toxic belly with bloated
minnows, lovers
dumped. I walk its cusp.