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Crimes of Compassion
Trish Hopkinson A created construct. A chronic condition. A culture of convicts. Compassion is a crook campaigning for crisis, circulating cemetery condolences. Centuries of condemned closed in and covered comatose. The cycle. The chain, like a cancer comeback crashing and cussing, circling and crisscrossing. Cumbersome as chemotherapy, but cheap, like camping or casseroles. We cozy-up to coincidence, conform to Change-- the cornerstone of circumstances, the constant. Clearly the course for a credible conflict. The crowd craves criticism. The collective comes in and cuts the cake, colors the canvas, chooses constraints-- cleanliness, chastity, control-- covenants of Compassion. --found in The Salt Lake Tribune 5 April 2014: e-edition. |
Escape from Lurigancho, painting by W. Jack Savage
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Trish Hopkinson has always loved words—in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. She has two chapbooks, Emissions and Pieced Into Treetops, and has been published in several anthologies and literary magazines, including The Found Poetry Review, Chagrin River Review, and The Fem. Trish is co-founder of a local poetry group, Rock Canyon Poets. She is a product director by profession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children. You can follow her poetry adventures at http://trishhopkinson.com/.
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over six-hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com). To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over six-hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
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