APOLLINAIRE by Timothy Robbins
APOLLINAIRE by Timothy Robbins
Apollinaire
This morning I read Apollinaire’s “Zone”and thought him silly. Meaningbeing a vagabond, his being a vagabond,it’s no surprise he wanderedalong silly’s crooked paths starting witha Proto-Indo-European root for‘happy,’ which he certainly wasin Stavelot, dancing...
DAYTIME TV by Ian Ganassi
DAYTIME TVby Ian Ganassi
DAYTIME TV
I used to wonderAbout Captain Kangaroo’s uniform;We knew Mr. Greenjeans had green jeans.
You never know it’s a uniformTill you try it on.
An army of one.They pay it no mind, which...
WHAT WILL BE by Daniel Senser
WHAT WILL BEby Daniel Senser
Watching My Roommate Sleep
For Tom
The old man snores like the windAnd the rumbling of rock-fall.What dream seduced himInto the deep chamberWhere the dark rose of oblivionGrows? All his life, he...
OUTDOOR SHOWER by Katherine Carlman
OUTDOOR SHOWERby Katherine Carlman
Hollow Things
Like the shell of a chocolate hare, upon the slightest pressure from an eager child’s hand causes it to give way to nothing but its own void
and trees toppled by...
GLITTERING ROMANCE AND OPTIMISM by Benjamin Biesek
GLITTERING ROMANCE AND OPTIMISMby Benjamin Biesek
Glittering Romance and Optimism
“After I had combed / the confetti from my hair”
Ralph Sneeden
Today I wept no tears.Today is a forest fire.Sure I’m atavistic, avaricePlated in a vegan fare...
FILE NUMBER 20 by Ken W. Simpson
FILE NUMBER 20by Ken W. Simpson
Homo Sapiens
Cloven creaturesdeodorised archetypesrevived as beaststo satisfy heredity’sneed for greedstinking of sanctitybefore the resurrection.
Amazing Grace
Dead sea soulsand a blackSatanic Massfor Christiansaccusedof genkocideto propitiateevil spiritsand beseechforgivenesswith the sacrificeof an infant.
The...
THE ARABIAN SEA by Debasis Tripathy
THE ARABIAN SEAby Debasis Tripathy
Equation in Parenthood
Yesterday, we got married by our own choice. Today we’redoing OK as parents. I've managed to train my brainto work in this new arrangement. You've also restrained.We have...
IT’S NO PICNIC WHEN THE WORDS ONE SPEAKS ARE IMPELLED by Susan Sonde
IT’S NO PICNIC WHEN THE WORDS ONE SPEAKS ARE IMPELLED
by a hail of white fury
and to know that the psychic bruise, the terrible corsage of pain another wears is of your making. It’s nightmare-tune...
SIDEKICK by Rikki Santer
SIDEKICKby Rikki Santer Sidekick you are monocleyou are lap danceryou are cheeky sailor boyyou are lamb chopped sock chocolate spell sideways glance from hellyou are ghost terrorist shy ingenue personality in 60 secondsyou are knuckle headed ...
PERHAPS YOU UNDERSTAND by George Eklund
PERHAPS YOU UNDERSTANDby George Eklund
Perhaps You Understand
I’ve done what I could do.If you want to mutilate me, then you will.I cannot row very far or fastIn my boat of green light.But I am beginning...