diydanna @ July 31, 2007 # One Comment
a fat girl’s beginning dance lesson (for joyce carol oates)
By ?
she’s taking salsa steps on the concrete
a rare feat of agility for a fat girl on steroids
but never daring to take steps on the cracks
for the superstition haunts her everyday.
next to her lucky rabbit’s foot in her backpack
is a picture of her mother in her […]
Editor @ July 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
SHALL THESE BONES LIVE?
By Jason Mashak
These shall
bones live as: groin-strung eyes
gut hunger braided and tied
with ponytailed twine
awake on a gypsy wagon
where spine lies with liver
quarantined
dry as hay in need of mares’ saliva
& none have mercy branded on a thigh.
Still, I ain’t
I say I ain’t worried
bout the stillness of […]
Quasimofo @ July 27, 2007 # 3 Comments
Wittmeister is Wisenheimer
An Ode By Quasimofo
(*This poem does not conform to Literature Code A9/b4 sub-section squat)
o N e
B R I M S T O N E
I’d ordered a slice of life
for brunch and lupper
but instead found myself
in the middle of a fistfight with Satan on the caboose of a Santa Fe train […]
Meghan Tennison @ July 25, 2007 # One Comment
and we can all suffocate together.
By ?
a heavy&soggy breath
ejects from my silky throat’s orifice, expanding and desiring
some healthy amount of beatings
to pursue its extinctive yet frightening&lonesome dreams.
insomnia’s make-up brush sweeps across my face as i burn
from the sight of these long-forgotten people on my jail’s ceiling.
they hang from it, ignorant
fantasizing about quick boat rides […]
Meghan Tennison @ July 23, 2007 # 5 Comments
no Xs over everyday heart-break action
By Meghan Tennison
when you offer your animal
an open mouth to
climb on in!
[ right claw
left heel
]
]
diced meat too.]
but they refuse
and drop-thump
on the linoleum to make
your face:
.sad…
grab a pan by the handle and
dive uncomfortable
-liquefy -
don’t shout
but
l i s t e n
the love, it’ll come back soon
pat @ July 21, 2007 # One Comment
Fresh Sips
By Pat A Physics
Her torso protruded from the smoke ring
a frilly ballet tutu fringing invisible lips
she comes from a store window display
smelling like a graceful nymph dancing
polygons pinched a web about her head
slender arms greeting eyes full of mirth
breathing swell and with relaxed posture
a reckless abandon seems brand new
making fresh sips of the unveiled […]
Le Hinton @ July 20, 2007 # 3 Comments
Alegria
By Le Hinton
her eyes are the color of cataracts
which allows her to see
positrons and electrons
for what they are
smaller versions of stand-up comics
or the leads in a romantic comedy
where the girl gets the boy
once i asked her
what does Granada look like from a distance
“joyful fun” was all she said
ever conscious of […]
Editor @ July 19, 2007 # 3 Comments
Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule
By Philip Appleman
I have to tell you this, whoever you are:
that on one summer morning here, the ocean
pounded in on tumbledown breakers,
a south wind, bustling along the shore,
whipped the froth into little rainbows,
and a reckless gull swept down the beach
as if to fly were everything it needed.
I thought of your […]
Editor @ July 17, 2007 # One Comment
Manhunt
From the Howard Hughes poems
By Christopher Barnes, UK
He’d lurked out of focus,
Leaves no trace. A dwindle to vanishing point
Then vague air.
Blackening rooms.
They had been his Gulag tower
For a repeating of tucked-away years.
He bolts from the subpoena like nitro-glycerine,
Whispers in backstreet shadows,
The reeking tang of trash heaps, a scratchy shack
In Arizona, steering his commissions on […]
Christopher_Lauer @ July 16, 2007 # 4 Comments
Is this for my comments? Let’s see: I actually just wrote this 6/18/07. I would also like to tell Homeland Security that I have never actually “tasted the product.” It’s just poetic license.