Tag: poetry
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II Poems by Jack Greer
Synopsis Reel flickers byof a flashing off-whitelike mucus.A great bigediting errorof a man standsfor a single frame. Fill in the blanks,the features of his face.Who placed him there,was it on purpose? The film slows and groans down,he steps onto the cutting room floor,then the moviemoves on to the next station. Industrial Estate Allsorts Low-set layerings […]
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“Flight” by Paul Hostovsky
Have you noticedthat birds on the ground usually walk or hopinstead of fly?But they will fly if you get inside theirflight initiation path,which is just a fancy way of sayingtoo close for comfort.Humans like to say things in fancy waysthat can usually be said simpler.This is used to distance other humans.Birds, like humans, will keep […]
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II Poems by Cleveland Wall
Liminal I My lad and I take a short walkto the bottom of the lane behind our house.But the end of the lane is not the end.Beyond lies a road, a swath of green,a wild slope, and the railroad tracks.Beyond the tracks: canal, towpath,river, mountain; and beyond the mountainare shops and a cinema we knowbecause […]
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“Bone Collector” by Khalisa Rae
They say the difference between a hoarder and a collector is that collectors see value in objects others would discard, while a hoarder believes they need an item to survive. I believe I am a hoarder of perishable people. Prized possessions my fingers strangled to hold to. Marks left on the throats […]
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3 poems by H.E. Casson
@Mourning Tell us why you are sad/not sad Mad/not mad Conflicted/devastated/glad That ________ is dead (*click here for thread*) So we can tell you why you’re wrong It’s wrong to say You celebrate (Would you, in public, masturbate?) The dropping of a megaphone That magnified (*buffering*) Your suffering To die […]
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“Black White and Blue” by Ana Gardner
1. The first time a wooden hanger hit my thigh, I crawled into a storybook of Arabian nights, And burrowed through the pages, deep into silence and inky walls Every story a new home Save for two. The tale of an ungrateful boy who out of greed killed his […]
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“She” and “Dear Future” by Marc Shapiro
SHE She used to like to do it in the morning When sunlight knifed through curtains Highlighting her movements Cat like Like cool easy jazz Then one day something left her Died A single tear tarnishing cheek It rolled down Moving her into the dark Where she continues to do it In silhouette […]
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“Esoteric Epigrams” by Lorraine Schein
The occult wants you to know that it doesn’t want you to know. “Reality” is bad for your health. I respect science but prefer the occult. The unknown does not know it is unknown. God is one name we give to our ignorance. The other is magic. The moon is a […]
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“artifacts” by Wes Bishop
Art by Kate Shaw when the end came we did not save everything there was barely room for us and so what we deemed us was saved what was not us was left behind and thus we learned who we really were by the mountains of archives, artifacts, and ways of being, that […]
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“How to Make a Magic Mirror” by Lorraine Schein
NOTE: The following piece is a found poem, excerpted and rearranged by me from an out-of-print book on magic. How to Make a Magic Mirror The natural fluid condenser is composed of a number of natural materials that have been powdered and mixed together in roughly equal proportions. Each of the ingredients has its […]