J. P. Dancing Bear California, USA (Poem Starting with a Line by Michelle Boisseau) I have lived in thwarts and starts, a gray trial lawyer, a pacing beast in the courtroom with a red briefcase. My satchel of motions, almost painted, with a can of Crimson Justice (who makes up these names for paint?). I…
Author: Madhuri Bite
“mowing the grass”
Robert William Gaglione Florida, USA they thrive under the droning within hum of ancient hymns legend-fed in a compost of their belief others open like moonlit perennials sprawled beneath blistered cover kneeling in fields with all which freedom brings relighting heaven and earth green rooting out mowing down rounding up clearing away mimicking those moving…
Crane / Crane
C. J. Sage California. USA Urgent bird, mathematical machine, you copulate the hill and go in seconds over her head. Nest builder, stick tosser, bog dweller, bog culler, your beak is a plier; your head is all jaw. There was once a leg and a brace whose parts collided. The two may never square again….
Lamb
C. J. Sage California. USA Fence jumper, yet devout avoider of low obstructions in your path, water walker you are not. Your mild way is counted, follow-the-leader, and by coveters your wooly coat is woven. Gate gazer (your herds from highlands & countrysides), the flesh is culled from your soft carcass. o shyer away from…
Chartreuse Lust
Anastasia Voight Texas, USA The wood wound path’s detritus is smirched with green-grit flotsam. As our steps disturb the verdant dust, even the newest jetsam is chalked with chartreuse lust. Such delicto flagrante would disgust if done by most any other. But a tree is a dissembling lover. No love-thrust, no convulsed spatter betrays arborous…
OCTOPUS
Unhappiness
K.K. Srivastava UP, India Terrible unhappiness, the wonder of it death wish pushed on us unhappiness and life two sides of one darkness darkness is no experiment. * The outside pressing malignance of light flies numbed with waiting for long appallingly we feel like a dying coal receding slowly. * Newness of the room always…