poems
“SOMETIMES THEY HIT ME” Sometimes they hit meand it feels goodwhen you knowthere’s no malice,and there’s even sometenderness.You feel safealthough itstill hurts.
Read more "Eugen Spierer – “Sometimes They Hit Me”"All night pine trees stand together – a cordon protecting us from what? * We sync up with the slow soggy heartbeats of a heron. * In silver glimpses fish dart in sunlight, churn the surface. * Driveway spider swells his body into her room. * The River Otter Under fog, a blunt nosed black […]
Read more "TIM STALEY – 15 LAKE MARTIN HAIKU"GRANDMA MOSES PRESS, the parent organization of CACTI FUR, is proud to announce they will be publishing 4 books by esteemed performance poet, Pamela Hirst. The books are Forgotten Graves, Personal Agendas, Ghost Town of My Soul, and One Dozen Lifetimes. This highly anticipated, powerful 4 book series is a work of recovery and discovery: […]
Read more "PAMELA HIRST – 4 POEMS FROM 4 NEW BOOKS"Balloon Man (The Saga of Monsoon Man) Balloon Man is the patriarchal saint of music.He tastes of grease and lint as hestudies the passing parade. Balloon Man is the patriarchal saint of cats and trees and birds and girlish ankles and boyish charm. A picture crashes to the floor, waking Balloon Man. He rises from […]
Read more "JEFFREY FIELD – 2 POEMS"Aubade A spasm of brown and tan crosses Armijo Lateral. Waves of squirming tadpoles fan like peacock feathers in a paunch of late morning light. In the low pool All-it-can-eat tadpoles. Slithering closer: a few feet long ½ those feet obscured by murky water. An effervescence in its eyes as it spits out its tongue […]
Read more "TIM STALEY – 2 POEMS"Instructions for Preventing Transgressions on Your Body Put on more clothing. Wear less clothing. Excavate your nostrils, examine their contents like science projects. Feign flatulence. Easy on the makeup, don’twant to look like a cake. Brush up on tomboy cultureand lean into it. Avoid conversations about sexfood, drinks, literature, and money. Avoid talking about anything at all. Ask […]
Read more "Jazmin Witherspoon – 3 POEMS"THE FINAL ELEGY I see your fate as my brother’s was,as mine might have been—actions furthered by weakness,theatrics unworthy of review.That you find diversion inself-pity is unremarkable:through a glass,refracted light makes a fine mirror;a movie lens never focuses on soiled sheets.I can forgive you all but submissionthat is only vanity, only exhaustion.I’ll write you off […]
Read more "R.T. Castleberry – THE FINAL ELEGY"As One City girl in woods. A lake. A pier. Feet submerged. She squeals. It is cold. Aching ebbs. She sighs. Yellow butterfly hovers. Sharing wing music. Baby bass swimming. Fishers. Poles over shoulders. City girl shooes them. Feet over pebbles. Clumsy dance around boulders to the warblers’ beat. Fifty feet beneath limbs, leaves, parting […]
Read more "CARLA M. CHERRY – 3 POEMS"Writing It all starts on a blank page, blank like the silence that surrounds me every day. The things that no one else will say. That blank space into which I cast my line, trying to find out what the next line is again and again and again like punching against a wall of silence […]
Read more "Daniel Schulz – 4 POEMS"WHEN THE VIRUS CAME & STOLE MY WORDS The dreaded virus came & went but It hit hard for a few days when it was Even a struggle to make it off my Couch to my damn sofa but those days Are now firmly behind me but still Something lurks as if this lethargy may […]
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