INTO NICARAGUAWe played nice with the officious border guards.They stamped our passports like driving nails through the paper.Villagers paid little attention to us.We looked as harmless as a light breeze.We drove up and down hills and around cattle.When lost, we asked for directions in broken Spanish.Rations were kept purposely low – rice and beans.Our stomachs […]
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Read more "IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH A NEW DRAWING BY BOB MCNEIL"Songs about Christmas and being at home headlights melt forward as slowly as candlewax rolling away from a flame. the traffic this evening is frustrating outside my window. it runs up the quayside toward heuston and past castle- knock. and runs into the city and west toward the port and some of it splits toward […]
Read more "DS Maolalai – about Christmas and being at home"CRYPT IN THE SKY Order me up, no one knows where this crypt in the sky like a condo on the 5th floor suite don’t sell me out over the years; please don’t bury me beneath this ground, don’t let me decay inside my time pine casket. Don’t let me burn to cremate skull last […]
Read more "Michael Lee Johnson – Crypt in the Sky"DEMONS The demons that dwell inside my head are coming out now and I greet them with a resigned malice while my neighbors finish dinner, help their children with homework, put dishes in the dishwasher, discuss finances, take their pills, finish watching Jeopardy.
Read more "JOHN TUSIN – DEMONS"NEVERWELL by DARREN C. DEMAREE coming soon from Small Harbor Publishing (2023) A car skids / onto our / front lawn / & I rush out / to make sure / I’m not in it. -Darren C. Demaree Every once in a while, you pick up a poetry book that’s exactly what you’ve been waiting […]
Read more "POETRY BOOK REVIEW : NEVERWELL BY DARREN C. DEMAREE"Flexible Press is proud to present Bob McNeil’s latest book titled, Compositions on Compassion and Other Emotions. Proceeds from this work, composed of essays, poems, short stories, and illustrations, will go to the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Read more "THE KNOWN SOLDIER : A MEMORIAL DAY DRAWING BY BOB MCNEIL"A Hundred Ways to Die You lose all your body fat, visible bones father Hospice is here, the bed you read a thousand books in, blanket over your face to sleep, snow outside, steps from dogs and grandkids, metastasized, a sunflower sprouts from your lungs, a sparrow on your disc florets, tomatoes green ready to […]
Read more "Noah Cicero – A Hundred Ways to Die"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"GOOD LUCK FOR THE DAY I’m walking along when I see this middle-aged woman at the top of a short flight of steps trying to pull a stuffed chair through a doorway, so I stop and call up to her, “Would you like some help?” Checking me out for a moment she smiles and says, […]
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