A Kiss for Judas by Joe Russo
A Kiss for Judas The diner was unusually empty, For that Saturday night, But we were unusually up at 2 In the morning because you, And we all had a part in this I guess, Suggested we head out somewhere because You were hungry and how could we all […]
Hunger Pangs by Julia Wendell
Hunger Pangs The live oak stamped on an opaque winter sky, its branch web intricate as kirigami. The chalky sky remains unaltered, unattended: taut, blank, no rain in sight, no wind. I want to put my nose to it, rub it on my hands, add a bauble or two to those lofty branches. This […]
seduction by Christopher Soden
seduction i cannot stop thinking about you lost as usual in a tango of growls and bites and swallowing whatever spills from our sketchy history grief and sweet gobbledygook if only i could come up from behind and kiss you deep and ponderous as an undiscovered galaxy then slip my arm under your chin if […]
Skull Traffic by Jeff Burt
Skull Traffic You, street-walking talking innuendo Street-sweeping sleeping bagged non-influential existence tangible anguished languishing despair constructing wooden vowels hammering consonantal nails straitjacket stuff, clinical, Prozacian,, lithium whacked out depression bleeding mercy muttering muddled puddle of thought thwarted cellular interrupted incessantly synaptic ejected rejected arguments split in halves pleasure repentance rapture estranged parted parent plate […]
Swan by Agnieszka Filipek
Swan I rub out the sun with an eraserglue stars onto the skycut out the moon from a National Geographic I arrange lampson empty streetslighting one at your favourite bench Fallen leavesrustle under my bootscollected by the wind A swan swims in the city fountainI don’t know what he’s doing herealone at night He’s nestling his head in featherstucking […]
