POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
I like to think I’m also sprung,
released from the furnace knocks,
done with the heavy meat stews
and salty soups.
and apples, mackintosh mostly, but any kind left in The Pub
at the Assisted Living Place
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud
He has stories that I am not in
anymore. It’s healed this way.
We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…
Even as the sun warms the concrete
the long nights’ sensual cold lingers in my clothes.
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
Try not to see your own predicament in every fucking thing.
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
here is the sky in stop motion, flickering,
a still shot in monochrome
Millions of Americans have been affected by identity theft. It’s probably the greenhouse gases.