Submitted Poetry
Smudge
Sage-so wisely named
just touches the boundaries with a gentle wisp
Poetry
Moon Dust
by Katie Knegeris – The dust never goes away, not really. It’s in your lungs, affecting your breathing. Your lungs always hurt. Five years later, you open your three-day assault pack And the moon dust falls out. You’ve washed that bag six times since you returned from Afghanistan, And still, […]
SKY SHAPING
An appreciation of The The’s Trilogy Box: Radio Cineola Volumes 4,5,6 (Cineola/Lazarus 2017) Night sounds in the day. The preposition’s adjusting. Shifting in his chair, from the evening, darkness composed, Across dawn. Matt Johnson takes care of the moon, By refocusing light on the city, powering it with electronics And […]
AS THE HEART ASCENDS
A response to I NEED A CHANGE the debut single by That Joe Payne Sighs from the angels descend in suitably unearthly chorus As the change Joe Payne needs most soothes the listeners soul With smooth sound. Classic chords unison as the God of song finds A daughter in […]
THREE POEMS BY DAVID ALLEN
OPTIONS Time to move on Despite my best efforts Considering the wreckage I leave behind, Is it better to Be forgiven Or just forgotten? FINAL THOUGHTS High on the Hardangervidda plateau Three hundred and twenty-three reindeer huddled Against the maddening rain when lightning speared Into the ground and Spread its […]
THREE POEMS BY DAVID ERDOS
WHAT WOULD SEEM As the accusations come Kings, it has to be said, forsake kingdoms. Men crowned by glory feel in the blood, Hidden thorns. Some splintered raft In the flood of a false dream of power Careening fast through disasters That leave the countries of self warped And […]
GT Interviews Poet and Publisher Josh Gaines
Interview Saira Viola, Portrait by Joey Feldman, Book cover art courtesy of Josh Gaines and Thoughtcrime Press Josh Gaines – Poet, Publisher, Editor, Provocateur, and Founder and Captain of ThoughtCrime Press – has orchestrated a world-wide grassroots artistic revolt against tweeter-in-chief and present incumbent of the White House, 45th President […]
The Brown Hiking Shoes on Our Porch
by Carmit Bat-Shalom Out on the porch A spider built a web inside your hiking shoe The one that pointed towards the door Its twin arranged for heading out Eager for walks with cameras And eyes that see what others miss It’s ironic, really, a spider making cozy […]
Sleeping Bag, Lighter and Hat
by Kyle K. Mann I’ve come upon them on my walk A couple in love, seated on an unzipped sleeping bag Laughing, kissing I smile and head for home For I’ll be back many times to this clifftop spot It’s my daily route I’m amused to see The […]
POETRY | A Gonzo Today Collection I.
pizza burgers my young and sometimes girlfriend has a thing for pizza burgers at the daisy queen up in marshall my Ex is dripping venom hot grease and sizzle butchered hearts on the grill she screams she prays that we die in a car wreck tonight her words smoke and […]