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It Is writtenPoetry

It Is written

Michael AckerSeptember 26, 2019

At the supermax prison books on the subject of superdeterminism are, predictably, in super high demand, flying off the shelves seemingly faster than the…

NeurojackedPoetry

Neurojacked

Jordan TretheweySeptember 24, 2019

Recreated images of faces now available via EEG scans. So accurate, police sketch artists will soon apply for employment insurance benefits, while witnesses are…

Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)Poetry

Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)

StarrSeptember 22, 2019

I pay attention to sunlight, watch it ribbon in the tops of trees. (Kisses are not the answer.) I'm at war with the walls…

The Gig EconPoetry

The Gig Econ

Lawrence GeorgeSeptember 21, 2019

Uber drivers drive reckless, they loop, round and round circling Big Ben, throwing fade patterns impossible to defend selling shirts, touchdown! outside Heinz Field…

Perverse and SaintlyPoetry

Perverse and Saintly

Cameron McClureSeptember 20, 2019

it started by sucking cyanide from the pits on the edge of a berried desert brutal emptiness dripped from within cramping confusing causing seizures…

she has a couple of rugsPoetry

she has a couple of rugs

Soodabeh SaeidniaSeptember 17, 2019

silk for those who gladly take off shoes wool for those in fear of dancing barefoot

One Way of Looking at Thirteen BlackbirdsPoetry

One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds

Dick HolmesSeptember 16, 2019

One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds with a tip of the hat to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is…

Encounter with a clownPoetry

Encounter with a clown

Marc WoodwardSeptember 15, 2019

I met a clown in plain clothes drinking in a bar—of course. He told me a kid once asked him “Are you a real…

Anna and the ScourgePoetry

Anna and the Scourge

RC JamesSeptember 13, 2019

We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history,…

San FranciscoPoetry

San Francisco

Marc WoodwardSeptember 11, 2019

“It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.” —Oscar Wilde Sundown sets the painted ladies dancing…

Before DivorcePoetry

Before Divorce

Eliot JacobsonSeptember 5, 2019

We bought our Ford Falcon for $200. There were spiders in the ashtrays. You kept a closet full of men's XL shirts and always…