Poetry - Year III - Number 11 - January 2018

THE RAPTURE OF FUNK By Lenny Lewis Two nights before Frediawas due backfrom elective castrationI carried her one-eyedblack dog down the stairs.Both of us soakedin his...

FAREWELLBy George Freek FAREWELL (After Tu Fu) Now we have to part.You go in one direction,I go in the other.Will we be drunk together,ever again? Last...

LOVELY DREAMSBy Mitchel Montagna For Ann, 1953-1970 There’s darkness ahead, with reels of grief.But on Christmas Eve nobody could know.They gathered in church to voice their...

MAKING IMAGESBy Martin Altman Making Images By the painter’s brush                                                               An image is born as picture before it’s born as speech, But in a cloud of pictures,The...

THINGS IN A GAPBy Eduardo Escalante Again Google, Mo Gawdat lines on happinessLemons or magnet for us?Rational smells with an old story:What part of my glass would I drink?Would...

    MISTAKEBy Thom Young   Mistakemistakemistakelike bluebirdsquietad singingthe regret songit soundsaliveit sounds forgottenbut I know what she dideven the angelsdoand nobody cries on the outsideanymoretears stay warmthey stay safethey hurt a little morethereinside holdingtiger eyes    Sada...

2nd FLATTEST STATEBy Noah Slowik Rabble-rousers Night traffic performing cautious deeds;good people awaited sacred sinswhile diligent ones are sound asleep,unnecessary suffering begins. Shadow-wanderers...

JAMES AND THE GODFLESHBy Robert Beveridge James and the Godflesh He bit into the truffle, feltthe hot coppery gushbetween his teeth. Only for a momentdid he...

THREE POEMSBy Tamara Williams  *** Pain, there are many women who carries your labor.Here are their stories.Cheers to the woman in Black with no strings attached.Your...

CONSIDERED OVERBy Victoria Randall PSYCHO AND SOMATIC red artillery aims to inflame injurywhite walls raise to slay diseasestoo diffuse to destroyan air light feeling firstthat later...