Nothing is sacred
not even the deceased
Final offerings
from beloved families and friends
looted
Bones carted away
names rubbed into dust [Read more…]
Nothing is sacred
not even the deceased
Final offerings
from beloved families and friends
looted
Bones carted away
names rubbed into dust [Read more…]
Containers of commerce
anchored offshore
shipped from port to port
Transported by semi trucks
to the empty warehouses of consumers
Who defecate the final product
out to sea [Read more…]
The Greek gods
have been evicted from Olympus
The financial crisis
is a mythological boulder
Sisyphus can’t keep from rolling downhill
into red
[Read more…]
A mother
is polishing a pair of boots with tears
Packing a duffle bag
with the camouflaged clothing of war
A ritual
as old as history
lost in the fog of parades [Read more…]
Old man
when I was mirror
you shattered me
You reached out for my hand
and found slivered fingers
[Read more…]
We turn down numerous invitations
worked into iron
Pass by countless welcome signs
dangling knobs
Miss openings
because eyes
are easily seduced by signs [Read more…]
Shot
through the hand by poetry
24 year old Rimbaud
left one season in hell for another
The alchemist of words
sailed by drunken boat
across Mediterranean
In Cyprus
he exchanged ink and paper
for shovel and pick
overseeing the deconstruction
of mountains into
governor’s mansion [Read more…]
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
What’s Worse
(For Gottfried Benn)
Your quiet room
gutted by businessmen
because sledgehammers
are more profitable than literature
[Read more…]
One day
it happens:
A green flash
and we disappear
We don’t want to look that far
over bending horizon
but we feel it
in suitcases
brought down from attics [Read more…]
Underwater
light is absorbed
sound scatters
gravity loosens it’s grip
the body remembers the womb
drowned
in earth’s blinding noise [Read more…]
A lone cigarette
is burning into ashtray
on kitchen table
varnished mohagany stained
by the ring of a wine glass
[Read more…]
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