Paweł Markiewicz – 2 poems

The quire of the sheep We are calling for your soul for a benevolent autumnal source May the hoary times arrive full of sunny gloom endlessly dream! with a fancy coming from tender sea we are conjuring you dreamer your mythical pearls Come propitious birdies from Olympus-mountlet! Recite my songs about the mellow dawn about […]

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JEFF LEWIS – HOMEWARD BOUND

Homeward Bound The world was younger thenwhen things seemed larger than today.You tried to dodge the flaming swordthat guards the gates of Paradiseand get back to where you once belonged,but it’s no longer what you remembered.All Dorothy kept saying was she wanted to go home,but her house wasn’t there anymoreshe’d left it somewhere in Oz. […]

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D. R. JAMES – THE USUAL, PLEASE, ON CRACKED WHEAT WITH MAYO

The Usual, Please, on Cracked Wheat with Mayo The tanned woman in the Midwest deli yesterday re-convinced me I’m superficial. Not that I needed re-convincing since regularly I’m the irregular normal person at the international annual convention of practitioners who see things differently. Whenever they feature that multi-humped camel in their closing ceremonial parade shaped […]

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ROBERT CASTAGNA – TERMINAL

Terminal I stood at the airport carousel waiting.I was outside looking downseeing how solitary my world had become.Where had all the other passengers gone?Then suddenly the airport was full of people.The carousel was full of baggage.Nothing but black suitcases and overnight bags.And it no longer mattered which one you grabbed.One by one, they were taken.Some […]

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