POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
I have an axe
with hearts gashed
I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.
it’s touch-and-go with me and weddings
Any still figure at mid-late evening, when the long shadows make even crumbs appear arranged like furniture.
Should have found a job by now; should have slept in the night;
should have boiled old coffee before noon.
I tap at the alphabet while a single deer
taps at the dirt beyond the brush
on the far side of the tree line.
we drove on through
the blue seal of morning as the turbines
turned and winked out their hearts
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
Yes I am guilty, I’m guilty. A sin was desirable then.
Bring the dancer back to the stalks.
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
Even from this distance I could go out
the door it would bang shut and crumble