POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
I tap at the alphabet while a single deer
taps at the dirt beyond the brush
on the far side of the tree line.
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
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.
The two of us toast to a man we both love, to whatever degree, clink our glasses and laugh…
Even as the sun warms the concrete
the long nights’ sensual cold lingers in my clothes.
the strands of your hair on the bathroom tiles aren’t sketching defeat. that’s you spitting disease in the face with another day you’ve woken up to.
It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.
I want to roll in this moment until I become its vocabulary
until I smell like the bones
until I am its echo…
Should have found a job by now; should have slept in the night;
should have boiled old coffee before noon.
the man is stayed bent over the canvas
of my sofa. the man is me the man is him
self and I bring down the whip…
