WHERE WE GOT OUR COOL Jazz within the sky ...gold upon this purple swamp ...this bebop swank of lullaby where angels sell their poetry for that treasure of a girl's sweet thigh thrust … [Read more...]
Poetry Archive
City of words by rob mclennan
City of words All the galaxies we see have a number. Sarah Lang, For Tamara Singlet. Does not wish to. Hardened. Alone is not the page. Breathe rapidly, and nuclear. Articulate. Torrential surf. … [Read more...]
Computer Classical Radio: Four poems
COMPUTER CLASSICAL RADIO Alluvial!...floatation of notes in a river of sound where fingers somewhere dance on a keyboard Nature! Nature! in a watery sight ..in the brain ...in the … [Read more...]
Todd Clouser: five poems from the Forest in Hidalgo
DRUNK DREAM It has been 5 years since I quit the drugs that were skinning my heart They, I, still make me dream about them That I was stone tongued and the Cause of laughter and awoke Shadowed … [Read more...]
A Stranger’s Education in the Arts: Poems
A STRANGER'S EDUCATION IN THE ARTS A brain with its echoes finds constancy in classical romantic serenade and a mirror in the later centuries' leap into expressionism dancing close to … [Read more...]
Bread and Circus – a poem by Todd Clouser
South of the imaginary lines where the uniformed and ironed men and and women that look like boys and girls, skin on the face still soft, wear their gloves and glasses bad men are winning the … [Read more...]
Four Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte
PULVERIZED I pulverized your jaw with a knuckle sandwich but you fought back blossoming your hyacinth. Then I shattered a quart of Colt 45 on the ivory lingam of your skull but you exfoliated … [Read more...]
4 spring poems
Ache Awakening In a moment where the yard explodes in air about infested with sky blue expanse in twigs straining to bud near left over winter mud and cars rip by in dense exhaust ...mirrored … [Read more...]
‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
Artist's statement: Weather reports rarely come true. Sometimes people changes their mind like sudden rain. They are falling and laughing like the sun-shower of letters. … [Read more...]
Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman
Salving the Tidewrack How to carve a driftwood lover: Begin by conjuring contours and proportions. Find a blank that speaks promise and between from among the other tangled flotsam populating … [Read more...]
Five poems by Sam Silva
MUSICAL STILL LIFE WITH COMPUTER Guitar serenade ...the plucked harp of my soul lingers as well in the cave I made of my heart with its hole echoing through computer wires with their … [Read more...]
Where The Hell is Shafi Hadi?*
(*Saxophone player Shafi Hadi, born Curtis Porter, is best-known for his association with jazz legend Charles Mingus, and played on the seminal recording Mingus Ah Um, from 1959. He dropped out of the … [Read more...]
Poems by Doc Burkard
Out in Stoughton, a few ghosts illuminated by chorus of flickering jack-o-lanterns that edge the windows. I'm on stage, trying to move my fingers over the strings just a little … [Read more...]
Three poems from Burma
WASO LAPYAE This morning Waso Lapyae Brings blue skies And a giant crow Perched upon the sill Of my squat toilet window This afternoon The heavy rain Gives me a headache … [Read more...]
Poems by Ana Maria Caballero
The Stories of Bedtime I am the only mother And you are the only son Your father He too is the only father The only man His father and my father Are past fathers Stories to tell … [Read more...]
Forgiving Time
He calls me kid I’m almost 34 now And have forgiven myself for getting older I walked past and hopped down to the crooked street Where the short man with baby dark skin sells balloons And blue … [Read more...]
Poems by Michael Bernicchi
sideshow heart all the prettyprizes wait in light all secondhand and shunned but stitched / stuck on tongues just the same we dance alike and you a little girl … [Read more...]
Two poems by Michael Julian
Darjeeling Through My Window Maybe you're eating lunch now, a plate of jasmine rice and naan. I can taste the chai you slowly sip and feel the mountain breeze on my arms. How deep in the … [Read more...]
Three poems by Michael O’Shaughnessy
< Anemone of the State the sea (all those parts pooled into one) upheaves and twists long rocks like dirty shirts on the beach. i jump over the laundry, balancing on a collar before … [Read more...]
Poems by Conley Lowrance
ARCHITECTURE The stairwell is empty. Her steps ricochet off the cement. Around her, the air is filled with impossible odors: foxglove, traces of some unnamable chemical. “This door leads to … [Read more...]