Holed up in a filthy duvet tightly bundled upwith the TV mutedscrolling YouTube shortstrying to escape the shameof not being able to remember getting homehow do you purge itis it enough to sweat it outmaybe I should go sit in a boxand tell the Fatherfingers grasping at the rosariesdirty words reverberating fromthe walnut panelling or perhaps […]
Read more "Michael Ashley ~ Holed up in a filthy duvet"Unanswered Prayers You didn’t seem to mind the unanswered prayers of your bebop aloneless. I brought you liquor and smokes, a dwelling place of vinyl: Clifford Brown, Art Blakey and the Bird! Your eyes drifted to carefully coiffed girls in the pew and their angularity of vision. I held you blameless, but don’t think that […]
Read more "3 JAZZ POEMS ~ CONNIE JOHNSON"Cow Creek What we called a crick,no wider than a standing leapone side to the other,a rat snake stretched in pasture sun,kinks shear as paper cuts wherethe water fought to go straight.We flipped cow pattieswith pocket knivesfor worms that writhedon hooks bouncedwith a neat underhandfrom grass into the waterupstream from a bend, floatedto where we […]
Read more "Matt Thomas ~ COW CREEK"Our parent house of publication, GRANDMA MOSES PRESS, is so proud to announce the release of APPLEPEAR! ApplePear : Poems, Cartoons & Jokes by TIM STALEY $19.99 (free shipping) ~ BUY NOW ApplePear isn’t just a limited-edition poetry chapbook, it’s an olfactory experience! Each chapbook is 6X9 inches and hand-scented using proprietary flavor bar technology. This […]
Read more "the first scented chapbook in the americas"FEATHER LIGHT A feather lieslighton its reflectionon the pond;conjoined twinsfloatingin unison. ~ ROYAL FOREST On forest meadowautumn leavesfallenlike royal subjectsbowingbefore kingand queen. ~ DESCENDING VERTIGO Fog and pondconsumedescendingfence postsin a silentfloodof grayvertigo. ~ CLOVER RHYTHM Patrons at a concert —clover heads bobin rhythm with the musicvibrating from the radiountil the song ends…They continuein mute appreciationof […]
Read more "5 POEMS ~ DIANE WEBSTER"Grieve as You Perceive Look thru these deliverance-denied eyes: You are now a child from a land beyond this land. All you need is an altruistic hand. What you get instead is a jail bereft of a bed. Look thru these deliverance-denied eyes: You are now a cis woman who demands autonomy over your chosen […]
Read more "BOB MCNEIL ~ Grieve as You Perceive"When Denis pulled the lever on the firebox in front of the school on a Saturday afternoon, and we hid in the bushes up the street watching the firemen get out of the truck, look around the front of the school, and then get back into the truck and drive away, I didn’t know that […]
Read more "Jeffrey Zable ~ THE LESSON"Mister slept with Miss;everything fits;dawn’s first light shineson bodies faded and inertweary and wornafter the exertionssuch as we know themof paradisial pleasures;to bring it downto earth and simplicitytwo bodies, one hairy and one smooth,side by side, catching the lightafter a long night of entanglement,not yet awake to the burdenof servitude to love and Eros,to a […]
Read more "Jack D. Harvey ~ ACT OF KIND"SO MUCH MORE: Abstracts, Unfinished Sequences, and Political Poems(Small Harbor, 2024)by Darren C. Demaree Flailing Load Stones Catching LightA Book Review by Tim Staley In the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1969 collection City Without Walls, Auden lays out the “dire poetics” which would topically drive American poetry for the next 55 years: environmental concerns, […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW : SO MUCH MORE BY DARREN C. DEMAREE"Steen Rasmussen YOU ARE You are the symptom And the disease You are the reason And the excuse Nothing makes sense When you’re not around Yet, it does us no good You hanging about And you’re just hanging about now Babies are born And old people die Accidents happen Disasters destroy You give me an […]
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