What an angry place Keeping me so warm So safe from dealing With the obligations Of Being Big Being more than You feel your worth Wherever that is Where Four circles Connected by lines Hang upon the wall Next to your mess Beside your collection Of Characters The silence that comes From an explosion Of [...]
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The Cut by Ellen Donbeck
Be to it To describe you and me, in anguish Gulit Seeking higher landscapes with Better Air Where I feel undeserved And it’s better you know I am Where you breathe calm, holding My hand Where you sit, relaxed Breathing deeply Transfering tension In smoke streaming fingertips Staring in my direction Noise, The noise that [...]
Continue ReadingFor Neruda by Yonacito
Wanderer, dreamer, poet, traveler my dear man, your life in words, and deeds, spills from the pages of miraculous like blood silver crystals, a brilliance that shone through the darkness of humanity I listened at the craggy edges of the world for love and lust, the baggy pants tied with twirled ribbon covered in patches [...]
Continue Readingme up next by Y.H. Etheart
after parting with sweat on my stomach and on your upper lip; wide-eyed and breathing i looked down as you sat up and saw you (what had always been you) wide-open and gaping and wondered to myself how someone so small could up and change from crevice to chasm all in one hour.
Continue Readingi see darkness by YH Etheart
i see a darkness and i know how little sense that makes. no, wait a minute, it makes complete and total sense. outlines of trees the sounds of animals projecting their forms into your mind running water establishing landmarks and even when it’s all completely dark, and still, and quiet, and hidden the night is [...]
Continue ReadingWash Me by Ellen Donbeck
Breathless, I awake to strangers Only wearing shoes and socks Needing nothing more, I rise Leaving Nothing behind No mark of a passionate tryst That may or may not have occurred Only inside my head So often described by others as sensitive I’m thinking so much My head might detonate So [...]
Continue ReadingSexadrenalin and Rockets Red Glare by Carlos Detres
Burst open the bright blue sky with neon lights As scared soldiers scurry beneath you skirt Bring in the dirty money Bring in the dirty freedom America, America, America. You shining disco ball of sexual repression and fever. When you were born, Your ragged mango flavored sex was nothing but a sore spot. Sore, [...]
Continue Readingzeitgeist by Yonacito
I am afraid of life my body trembles as I stir the cauldron of anticipation a fractured thought is all I can muster, a thousand paths to imitate a breath and a word consciousness on a thin layer of glass, so fragile, ethos of an era. failure of flesh and mineral, once arable now devoid [...]
Continue Readingkicked to the wayside by Olly Bryan
I emptied myself of my self conceptions ambitions ideals principles love hate
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