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. […]
Read more "JEFF LEWIS – HOMEWARD BOUND"Loud Whispers In the realm of their senses, They create a ripple of excitement Spreading through the listening crowd To deliver a message of mind and heart They stir the blood and grapple the mob They take the wind out of the storm With raunchy voices, sometimes they whisper To deliver a message of passion […]
Read more "Ramzi Albert Rihani – LOUD WHISPERS"I’ve Heard It All Before I stride across sticky floors, cup held lightly between loose fingertips, the low lighting making me all the more alluring and my smile all the more inviting from across the room. But my smile doesn’t match my tired eyes and you don’t catch how it teases you. How, Can I […]
Read more "TORI BERELS – I’ve Heard It All Before"When Women Built the Cross, 01 November 2021 Teleran, Costa Rica Damp red clay roofs Angled against green hills Where white cows graze in in the rain A looming cement cross on top of the tallest hill; erected a decade before by three men who searched for a task to display their faith filtered through […]
Read more "MIKE GORDON – WHEN WOMEN BUILT THE CROSS"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 […]
Read more "D. R. JAMES – THE USUAL, PLEASE, ON CRACKED WHEAT WITH MAYO"YOU KNOW YOU’RE ANTI-SOCIAL WHEN YOU PREFER A LIFE IN QUARANTINE I spent 14 days in quarantine which i Saw as being potentially 20160 minutes Of just sitting staring at my four walls Worried that slowly I’d be going out of My mind but it passed easily in a haze Of smoking words and films […]
Read more "BRADFORD MIDDLETON – YOU KNOW YOU’RE ANTI-SOCIAL WHEN YOU PREFER A LIFE IN QUARANTINE"Holding On Oh, but I am not about death. I am not about rejection or letting go. I want to open my soul like a pair of arms and embrace it all– the beauties of this world– to gather them in like lovers or little lambs. To hold on, to hold on, to the sun-kissed […]
Read more "Dr. Peter Scheponik – HOLDING ON"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 […]
Read more "ROBERT CASTAGNA – TERMINAL"Religion The Dude was here The Dude’s a saint Saints pick their teeth Saints spread like wildfire Wildfire eats oxygen Wildfire purifies Purify your thoughts Purify your chant Chant for Godtopia Chant for redemption Redemption for massacre Redemption for torture Torture to convert Torture to believe Believe in deep alchemy Believe heretics will confess Confess […]
Read more "RIKKI SANTER – RELIGION"The Toy in Trouble After Harryette Mullen & With Apologies to Paul Simon These are the ways of lyricals and blunders. This is a long list of falls. The way the stammering fallows us in so much. The way we mistook it all. The way we took to a miscreant congregation that thinks it’s flying […]
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