POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
I have an axe
with hearts gashed
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
You let the yellow glow
from eye sockets. The building up the street
is burning faster and faster.
Even from this distance I could go out
the door it would bang shut and crumble
I would always rather be happy than
dignified. Rather held than held
in awe.
I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.
It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.
it’s touch-and-go with me and weddings
He has stories that I am not in
anymore. It’s healed this way.
I buy too much, for someone of my stature.
could pawn a skinny metaphor to purchase a plump skin.
its reputed in our lineage— to daydream a life that shreds our pockets.
and apples, mackintosh mostly, but any kind left in The Pub
at the Assisted Living Place
In my universe, my arm carries a heart and flowers,
my back a misguided quote