Category: Fall 2009 Poems
Shock
by Cory McClellan Turn off the lights. Undress with caution. You’re wearing the electric touch of abandoned hair dryers. Drag your feet across
The Beast
by Steven R. Weiner The single throat in the painted wood car Screamed for adventure Defying gravity’s intense external response Rejoicing in the
The Bliss of Indigo Trees
by Richard Martin It pays to sleep in a warm room And review poor decisions Before nodding off The mind in a stew of mind Casts shadows of light
This Much
by Mark Hedden By catsup, by fish, by coffee bitter and black, My mind this morning a shredded cobweb. O Woman, lean back. Be quiet, one moment
The Explorer
by Mark Hedden It is so easy to forget what brings you here. For three years now I have been sitting in this room Listening to the sounds
When I Suck Your Nipples
by Dan Sociu I’m a comic–book character — bubbles come out of my mouth inside which nothing’s written. — translated by Adam J. Sorkin, Dan
The way home is no longer the way home.
by Dan Sociu One night my wife and I carried ten bucketfuls of shit — I think we haven’t spent such a good time with each other since ’98: we
In the morning I wake up with fear of life
by Dan Sociu In the morning I wake up with fear of life, At night I go to sleep with fear of death. And it doesn’t seem to portend a good day,
Birdsong and the Old Night
by David J. Rothman Just before the dawn the songbirds sing As if they are so happy to be alive, Mused some idiot who didn’t know anything About
What Must Be Done Again Today
by David J. Rothman It was a time of happiness. Each day The sky would open like a great blue wing. At night rain fell, a gentle rain. We