POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
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…
you know that
baby swallows make silver ripples
in wild rivers to court reeds?
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
Should have found a job by now; should have slept in the night;
should have boiled old coffee before noon.
In my universe, my arm carries a heart and flowers,
my back a misguided quote
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
I imagine that undressing a color, though, would be so much like peeling a memory away from the grey and the white matter of your brain.
The two of us toast to a man we both love, to whatever degree, clink our glasses and laugh…
I have an axe
with hearts gashed
Do not say anything anybody else has said ever. Things are not “bleached by sun.”