My Mind my mind can’t adjust to late night darkness deep inside corners of muddy book puddles that muddle my mind Breathing A cold front complicated love today as lack of simple fresh oxygen, cool, clean and necessary, couldn’t blow from Mid to West but instead created snow in the South. Continue reading »
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2 poems by Ivan Jenson
Grocery List I need a couple of items from the store pick me up a carton of perseverance with no expiration date a dozen new ideas a box of ethereal dreams lips smiling and saying cheese bring back breast, thighs, legs, and the chick that goes with them sugar and spice and anything else you … Continue reading »
Lost In Translation by Allie Marini Batts
It will never matter what the words were that washed away in a feedback tsunami of Just Like Honey all that matters is that you whispered at all. Continue reading »
The Current Market by James Curtiss
There was a time when coke was much cheaper. But that was after all in the 90s; and what’s more, its rise in price is nothing compared to what taxes have done to smoking. Two when I started, seven bucks is the going rate for a pack of smokes in Ann Arbor. But coke is … Continue reading »
Quiet by Kasia Pilat
Our quiet apartment: my shoes tucked in quietly next to yours, only sound the creaking of bones, the mattress it creaks and then a battalion: mean, salty men riding the seas. They beckon, like sirens, but I wish them szerokiej drogi, then I heed them no more now, the prayer to the goddess Fortuna, who … Continue reading »
Attack by J.K. Durick
Sometimes my heart is a liability, a ticking mess trying to out guess my density and my gravity. It tries out attitude and platitude, beats its lonely drum that only some can hear, or it crashes, dashes, smashes, like Sunday china at a company picnic. Sometimes my heart weighs on me then plays on me … Continue reading »
Eternal Flame by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Cremate me in your fires of passion, burn my soul indelibly, memories will a story fashion, of how we loved, and used to be. Continue reading »
For Aurélie by Elizabeth Cook
Stay your course, and do not trim Your sails to reach me drifting I want neither warmth nor rescue From the autumn waves’ crashing But to know the great and empty cold Of the sea seeping through my body To look upon the final visage of Heaven and water’s wedded unity For my bridal suit … Continue reading »
Beware by Carl Douglas
All fluorescent before the dreamscape The feeling continues We dispel grotesque delusions And become luminous Love will be born I am desirous Beware! Wary curious Fading slowly Sun on his face Down what streets The lover Makes his way Never to catch up Continue reading »
Heart of Wood by Kislay Chauhan
Somewhere a box filled emotions Of wood, built round bit for life Different cherishes keeping in Supplying sets of dreams’ belief A lock of ego, anger and hate With key of help, kindness and love The sides varnished with tender A sort of wood flinching in fear Slanted, corners of silence, spiritual Stiffing to ground, … Continue reading »