How Small Can the Smallest Star Be? I hear the thank you notehas gone out of style.That’s just bad mannersif you ask me. A sign ofpoor parenting. Remind meagain, what’s the small fork for?What’s the proper salutationfor a collection letter?Are dowries still a thing?I thought I saw a hummingbirdbut it turned out to be a […]
Read more "PATRICK MEEDS – 5 POEMS"HANNAH Au pair Ragtime tinkles. Velvet curtainsMouths of Dissertation muddles. Swish. ItalianGlass slipper. Director’s cutCockatiel twitters. Fascinates. ~~~ JACKSON Cane stings Shipyard klaxon. Fixative graftsKnuckles. Mortified Bevvy, ham Knick-knack.Hour. Tucker. Squint clearOf window. ~~~ AGNES Marionette contorts Stuffing gunks Surgical over-the-kneesOn flames. Fork. Bubbles Bottlenecks veins.Perihelion rebuffs Slosh terrine. Tea-wealdSky. Mug idle. ~~~ RAB Sun-stroke […]
Read more "Christopher Barnes – 5 poems"Emily as a Blue Jay at First LightI love any empty roomEmily is perched outside.She calls& it doesn’t matterif she’s calling for mebecause that song meansthe world is still here& Emily is speakingto us, to all of us in the wayswe deserve. Obnoxious beautycreates the world every day& Emily can’t really sing,but there we are,with […]
Read more "DARREN C. DEMAREE — 3 poems"HEY GUYS, YOUSE PROBABLY DEAD NOW So I can’t be sued by none of youse, as you always said,wouldn’t care much about suing except to spit the word out like a curse.But thanks guys for what I learned about how not to live life. Ernie Bigush used to spit a lot more than he talkedwhen […]
Read more "VERN FEIN – HEY GUYS, YOUSE PROBABLY DEAD NOW"5 Years ago Remember as the sun set on James island Tired Together Fading into the coming nightAnd how after heading back to our camp An old man to show the pictures he had taken of Our silhouettes together encircled by Fiery dusk How he asked for our emailsIn effort to send the photos to […]
Read more "TOM PESCATORE – 5 Years Ago"They Come at Night I know how to read men even with my eyes closed, hands out, fingers reading the Braille of sweat, of the man on the bed beside me. I pretend I’m deaf so he won’t talk to me, but I have been alive just long enough to know when someone is about […]
Read more "HOLLY DAY – THEY COME AT NIGHT"We are creatures of Earth and we go by Water We are creatures of Earth and we go by Water Our silent barges slide through violet waterways Behind the warehouses No window overlooks our passing No anglers see us as we go by The banks and towpaths are deserted And over there behind the wall […]
Read more "I.D. Sherred – We are creatures of Earth and we go by Water"Memento Mori I was in Duesseldorf recently, watching dreams burn out on the sidewalk. I love this city. The way the rich sit in their restaurants like animals locked in a zoo. Money isn’t character. I know that because I have none. I love the view. The way the sun sets over the promenade makes […]
Read more "Daniel SCHULZ – Memento Mori"Caffiend Oh, when the bridle wirepulls her comb and her teethbegin their play, their tin-canmorning melodies aremocking me, so gay. “Oh,” is what I say.How is it these sirensstrike 6, and 7, and 4?No day is as before,a roller-coaster melody,looping back-and-forth. My body aches with gravity.My blood: mercury soup—poisoned, heavy metals;cold and acid blue. “Hey, […]
Read more "Quentin Staley – Caffiend"THE CONNECTION No, I’ve never come across a dead human on one of my walks in Golden Gate Park, but the other day I came upon a dead squirrel that was being ravaged by insects that no doubt heard the news and couldn’t pass up an easy meal. And as I watched the mini-spectacle I […]
Read more " Jeffrey Zable – 2 poems"
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