Maria Mazzenga
Maria Mazzenga writes poetry and fiction from her home in Arlington, Virginia. She's collaborated on four books of art, poetry, and fiction with visual artist Roger Doyle. Most recently, she's had poetry published in The Amethyst Review, The Bitchin' Kitsch, and Eyedrum Periodically, and fiction published in Chronos.
PoetryAt the corner of something and something
the dirt patch under the power plant has seen some grim fairy tales overlooking dreamstreet the mangiest of mushrooms grow there, spottily, near dessicated…
PoetryVisible Memory Punctuation
An old bar called The Rose Tattoo flew in from the past. The flat blue outline of floret appeared on an imaginary arm, filled…
PoetryPigeon religion
the pigeons do their dancing bits right here on the street and call it life. If you stay still on Sundays you can hear…
Scylla and Charybdis
feather-sized flakes spin then faint on the grass we look at the sky, wondering eggshell facts melt on our faces life isn’t quite irresistible…
Poetrynothing personal, just my heart changing its mind
my heart beats less in November it has nothing to do with love ice crystals in the morning sun the dead leaves around my…
PoetryHidden Riddles
A quest for spiders might lead to entrapment in silk threads Palm reading: infinity is embedded in the ice crystals of hand-shaped clouds Music…
PoetryApocalypsis
On the last day a homeless man offered a woman with a briefcase a lecture on living & she listened & the man with…
Art, Fiction, ShowcaseBreed the Messenger
Reset The Humans loved to burn things up—witness what they did with Mars eons ago. After they torched Earth’s exquisite atmosphere, the cold blew…
PoetryZombies Bless America
never tell a zombie the truth never lie to a zombie never say things to a zombie you wouldn’t say to your own mother…
PoetryThe astronaut
The astronaut the man in the threadbare tweed says he’s laying low right now, coasting through, baby, paying off a few invisible debts to…
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