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The Donetsk Morgue (October 2014)
104 words Some lie alone on carts, while others who are new, wait stacked up on the floor. For you see: there’s a queue inside the Donetsk morgue. Death masks and private parts here are processed and...
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What They Found
119 words “The dead came back from Jerusalem, where they found not what they sought.” —Carl Jung, Seven Sermons to the Dead, Sermon I, 1916 Beneath a leaden sky: street merchants peddling wares, old...
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The Counter-Currents 2014 Summer Fundraiser An Appeal from Our Writers
1,016 words During last year’s Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, a number of our writers issued statements of support. They are just as valid now as then, so we are reprinting them here. Leo...
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Two New Poems
19th-century Japanese print of “namazu” (the catfish that cause earthquakes) being restrained by a rock. 145 words Tarn Catfish When viewed from the grey bridge above they are black submarines that...
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Rhine Meadow, 1945
116 words How bitter to abandon the King Tiger, long 88 pointed toward the blackened sky; to flee west for three days in the spring snow from the T34s of the Red Army; to toss the Luger, and wave the...
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Six Feet Beneath the Snow
58 words Deep from head to toe into the second sleep, sister to the crow, she does not hear me weep. A continent away, a sky and ocean apart, I am her last born stray, I with my leaky heart. No, we...
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Somewhere over Germany, 1945
30 words At the gates of heaven he did not know the names beyond the bombing bay. But many miles away he could still see the flames judging the dead in Dresden. From Leo Yankevich, Tikkun Olam and...
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The Ghost of Metre is as Dead as Friedrich Nietzsche’s God
737 words Robert Vas Dias, London Cityscape Sijo (Perdika Press, 2012) Darius Victor Snieckus, The Slow Wheel (Paekakariki Press, 2012) Kate Foley, A Fox Assisted Cure (Shoestring Press, 2012) Wynn...
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“Lazarus”&“Karpatia”
143 words Lazarus I came back, the wind whistling in my ear, dove on my elbow, crow on my torn cuff, but I could not remember; the long lost year having left the hourglass like the love that sifted...
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“Grey Wolves”&“Hedgehog”
100 words Grey Wolves At midnight they descend the hill, (fur and flesh caught between their teeth), howling at the moon and stars, delighting in the knee-deep snow, and in the purity of the pack,...
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Céline
64 words Three pamphlets in which he spared none do not diminish my esteem. Rats in a stable are not horses. (How well he knew their beady eyes, steaming sewers and twisted knives!) The pamphlets are...
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Flags
76 words Gay Pride is raised, and Dixie’s down. The Kenyan king inside his House has it lit to reflect his crown. Ms. Jenner’s teats swell in her blouse. Burrs prick the sky in Baltimore, more melons...
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Archie Bunker Rhymes
57 words A cuckservative wooed the vote of Diego, and married a dwarf from south of Laredo. The Koch brothers offered him a lump, and then along came Donald Trump to put an end to Pinko correctness....
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Counter-Currents Radio Greg Johnson interviews Leo Yankevich on Art & Politics
Leo Yankevich 56:34 / 205 words To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Greg Johnson interviews leading formalist poet Leo...
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Somewhere over Germany, 1945
30 words At the gates of heaven he did not know the names beyond the bombing bay. But many miles away he could still see the flames judging the dead in Dresden. From Leo Yankevich, Tikkun Olam and...
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Elegy for Hanns Breitenbach (1890–1945)
112 words You disappeared in the dead of winter, but not like Yeats. No wife or mistress were at your side. A hole and splinter alarmed you, but did not distress. Duty called. You would not part your...
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Promised Land
121 words Rousseau’s brave savages had circled her covered wagon, leaving vestiges of life that could have been: dreams of a promised land, a son and rag-doll daughter, a scalped Scottish husband, and...
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Light in a Dark Age:Leo Yankevich’s Journey Late at Night
1,794 words Leo Yankevich Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd., 2013 Leo Yankevich is an American poet who was born and raised in the somber...
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A Hundred Since the First
92 words For five days the blowflies have cleansed their bones. Now they lie waiting for the August rain, for holy water, afterlives beyond Ukraine, sure heaven neither judges nor atones? Atop camo...
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Unity Mitford
117 words “She learned to walk again, but never fully recovered. She was incontinent and childish.” She had sat at the Chancellor’s feet, a rival to Eva Braun, highborn, blue-eyed, contrary to the...
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