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Poems by Primavera
by Lorri Primavera 1. Happiness. I’ll have none of that exaggerated full body clapping in delight joyful amusement virginal wonder belly laughing milk spouting out of noses my team won birth announcement congratulations, you get a raise HAP HAP HAPPINESS Plain Happiness… please. 2. I thought a […]
“Music is the fuel…”
by Cody S. Decker art by Stephen Bischoff Music is the fuel that keeps us going once we’re way past empty if it’s turned up just right Music is the tool that digs out the memories of a time when fun on any night was the only priority
October is a Challenged Sun
by Ashley Beth October is a challenged sun Embalmed in misty fog But it’s colors overcome Oh how the death cycle Feels so much like the rinse cycle Our time harvested Our efforts picked Folks reborn to better health Folks beginning to get sick The flu loves the […]
Duke Ellington Blue -Story of a Soldier
by Saira Viola art by Joey Feldman The lines on his face were etched with Rum His eyes drooped down, they were battered folds of red And veined with the purple fist of poverty He had a 24 hour vacant look about him said he was OPEN to all offers […]
‘AND SO WE SWIM’
by Mason Crow Smiling crescent in the Blacken’d Eventide Swimming like a smile turned grimace On the jaded spin of a boot-heel Dizzy with stories of yesteryear How you hang there in your Glory Only visible because of reflection A corona envisioned about you might bring snow I freakin’ hope […]
American Dreaming
by Chet A. Oliver time clocks alarm clocks clocks and camera tick tock, bells ringing staring down from their mechanical perch pointing single hand mockery laughing at your rueful obedience of laws written in the will of power of consumerism commercialism, materialism industrialism capitalism, conservatism of executive orders, war, drone […]
An Interview with Heathcote Williams
interview by Saira Viola For Saira Viola and Heathcote Williams: If Art, if poetry is not revolutionary then it is not Art, then it is not poetry! The mythopoet returns to the role of seer by creating myths that resonate, that explode in the minds, the beings of readers, myths […]
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