Mark A. Fisher
Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, California. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Silver Blade, Eccentric Orbits, and many other places. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His poem “there are fossils” (originally published in Silver Blade) came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair. Mark recommends The Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
would the Supreme Court
rule in my favor
if I were to suggest
in this poem
2nd Amendment Solutions
he spoke and all the intelligence in the room
was sucked away in a cognitive vacuum
then he puked out “truths” manufactured
in Tennessee sweatshops
by homeschooled children
is it simply so simple
a journey of a thousand –
begins with a single death
where each camp is a form of alchemy
Beneath soft skies and damp wrapped mountains
old men now bundled in earth against this cold
are fading memories of their war
like sepia photographs lost in attics
