A Response to a 'Remember 9/11' Calendar Hung In the 3rd Floor Break Room In the Building Where I Work..., Pumpkin Terrorist, The United States of America 2000 - 2008, and American Poets
by Hosho McCreesh, July 2009
"My god did we laugh, and laugh as we
just kept drinking and took turns
punching the left over jack-o'-lanterns
as hard as we could, our balled up fists wet,"
Bound, In your country, The Future Torturers, I Wish I Could Have, Cradle of Death and Gamble
by Leonard J. Cirino, July 2009
"I wish I could have visited that museum
before it was looted, examined all the treasures,
and told the people how much I grieved
for their country, and for mine too."
Stimulus Package, Survival of the Fittest, and Fake Memoir to Become Real Novel
by Amy King, July 2009
"The philosopher, a pompadour,
speaks without moving his lips.
He throws
a cannonball, like caution,"
Two Visual Poems by Alex Nodopaka
June 2009
Conceived in Ukraine, Alex Nodopaka exhibited first in Russia, 1940. Studied tongue-in-cheek at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Foremost Artist, would-be-Author, Art critic and Great Lip Servicer in 4 or 5 languages and gibberish after a bottle of Fire Water.
Killer Instinct and T'was
by Constance Stadler, June 2009
"I could not bear to Honor you,
But I could not Escape the imprint
Desperation
Of your drowning Death Throes"
Salome and Fugue
by John Calvin Hughes, June 2009
"Do you live here,
or did you see this on TV?
You study the cracks
in the sidewalk like maps."
Weather and Surveillance
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, June 2009
"but then at my age events often remind me of other events, reduced
in my cortex to bittersweet vignettes from Moscow or Norway
places in a latitude of history I find only on medieval maps."
do it yourself, the agenda, and we were nothing once
by Ross Leese, June 2009
"it's the everyday, the mundane, the humdrum
that will slowly kill you. it's the putting up curtain poles, burning cereal boxes
and taking off doors that will finally fuel the anxiety
feed the depression."
[ pinhole ], the city is not for fireflies, and kitetrooper
by Daniel Wheatley, June 2009
"pssst
and her sex bleeds slow,
crinkled like cellophane."
gushing thunder, the headiest broth, and words giving birth in the mouth
by Donna Snyder, June 2009
"you feel immersed in a silk soup of Aquarian logic
the amniotic velvet of this moment's words and rhythm
the headiest broth of you and your wettest cells"
Three Painters' Exhalations
by Felino Soriano, June 2009
"This is earth, the beautiful. The undefined
by man's need for green voices, a green
of greed voice, a greed in the hiding
sophistry contaminating the thoughtless,"
logged out, overtime, and the night of the crimson moon
by Aryan Kaganof, June 2009
"it never happened
well at least that's the
line i keep repeating to myself
while i watch your colours fading"
boeing going awry and oh, soap
by J. D. Nelson, May 2009
"with a slide rule I
invented a rainbow galaxy"
Easter Massacred and ...says my Solitude
by Constance Stadler, May 2009
"These Barrio bitches hate me
I am Younger
Smarter
Whiter (oh, MF, yay for me!)"
Telenoticias and The Ibis Lily
by Gene Keller, May 2009
"b l o o d on the TV soaked
by b l o o d in the papers bloated
by b l o o d on the streets cloaked
as b l o o d in dreams"
the visible dead, the light burrows through the sky, and escaping
by David McLean, May 2009
"the light burrows through the sky
like a demented vole
intent on torturing us
by showing us everything,"
It's Not the White Cat at Midnight or Linen on the Line, Substance Unbearable, and Her Knives
by Eric Smiarowski, May 2009
"these compulsions live in a
gray pheromone constant
and skulk along the walls of alley deep porno huts"
For sale, Blue Lady, and Exit
by Cecilia Ferreira, May 2009
"I saw a self-portrait in the window
Displayed at R8000
I never knew a soul could be on special."
red white and blue, thumbprint in the sand, and another holocaust movie
by David LaBounty, May 2009
"the naked beauty
was only interrupted
by the trace of hair
on her upper lip"
Berlin, The Stranger Who Comes to Jenna's Door, and One Black, One White
by John Grey, May 2009
"just like the kid
they found the other night
rolling about on the sidewalk
outside the burned-out tenement,
wrestling with the bullet in his chest"
A Hypertext Poem by Edwards Wells II
April 2009
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The Lamentation of Lotonym
by Ryan Undeen, April 2009
"and Gaia won't abide his playful banter
any longer. She dispossessed him of his harem;
Was she his wife to wipe away his concubines?
Does she see, now, that he can't remember why?"
Blue Devils
by Shaun Wisniewski, April 2009
"It's amusing now. A little.
What did you ask, my angel?
Are you sure you want the grown up answer?
It's a big long hallway out there—"
Parking, The Chimney, and Candy Necklace Car
by RC Miller, April 2009
"It's shocking how photographs
Probe the inner emotions of holidays,
And successfully signal an imprinted doomsday
That cares so much for nailclippers buttfucking mortality."
Deconstruction, Debriefing, and A Universe
by Paul Christian Stevens, April 2009
"I have you, poet, in my deconstruction
chamber, all your tics and secrets bare:
my noose about your neck, dog at your throat
to scare the crap from everything you wrote."
String of Beads, With Time to Kill in the Midst of a Crisis, and Thinking About Illusions
by Alan Britt, April 2009
"Well, the truth is that illusions
every day get crushed beneath the supple hooves
of a mountain goat
who's flowing white hair resembles an angel"
the sun breaks through the clouds and burns a red stripe across my face., Why inhale if you have to let it go, and 'when i get home dinners already in bed'
by Dan Raphael, April 2009
"as my mind is opened it wants to get back inside
what doesnt come out keeps growing
when some far in the future nova threading through like the archangel of repression
as a slogan infests the crowd so the face on the wall must be changed"
Blue Jay in Bare Branches, March, and Haze of Rose Lace
by Lyn Lifshin, April 2009
"seductive as
skin under
silk and gauze"
breakwater, one of the lucky, and sunrise
by Karl Koweski, April 2009
"Lake Michigan lays there
a dead ocean
indistinguishable from
its mortuary slab."
Tiny Houses, Life, and Night Crept In
by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, March 2009
"It walks in graveyards and
invites death for a talk.
Life breathes comfortably."
Without the Window Latched, March 18, Too Far from Here, and Past Agony and Ecstasy
by Lyn Lifshin, March 2009
"as the real world
slid from me
like a sheer
night gown"
...we call this the sign of omission., A Study of Volume, and Gender Issues
by Kerryn Potgieter, March 2009
"You are not a blue word lost in my throat anymore.
I am not even a word anymore.
You are stolen with me
and we have mouths of heavy rain."
Greta Van Susteren Has a Sexy Perpetual Sneer and Hitchhikers' Redux
by Dennis Mahagin, March 2009
"I was about
to call it a night
when my I Mac
channeled Kerouac"
cheating and Remember?
by D. C. Porder, March 2009
"now i remember. i was the one
who had the marlboro.
i twirled it in my fingers like a
ninja sword and pressed it deep"
Wittenoom, Western Australia and The Smiling Slug
by George Anderson, March 2009
"Asbestosis: widespread thickening scarring of lungs.
mesothelioma: lethal tumour of the lining of the lung."
the confused lion and for the first time in a month
by Justin Hyde, March 2009
"incurable cancer of the intellectual,
carl says
as a clutch of bonobos
start throwing shit balls at me "
"Love Dismembered"... A Play in Three Acts
by Constance Stadler, March 2009
"I will tremble. I will be led to a bed of white
sheets. Whiter than tundra. Whiter than the
fawn's breast. Whiter than a silted dawn. Whiter
than light itself —"
less than a second, Up to the Heavens, and blood
by Alex Galper, March 2009
"A former Mossad,
he pulls on his apple hooka
smiles
at the waiter and
whispers into my ear:"
Gone Rattler
by Lawrence Welsh, February 2009
"wipes off
the blood
and tosses it in
a local's frame"
one dream and Why?
by Peycho Kanev, February 2009
"for all the years
for all the time
I just wanted one thing"
Memo and Dispense Me Diseased
by Lindsay Strait, February 2009
"I am Drought Fever
Skankified Release
A growing epidemic
That needs to be policed"
Side effects and My dying bones
by Eryn Roberts, February 2009
"Get AIDS to spite him. In
some instances, you will
discover the difference
between fucking and falling"
the birds, here is my palette, and i saw a zulu woman once
by J. A. Spahr-Summers, February 2009
"she snapped like a dry stick
she struck quick as lightning
a ruthless cobra stretching
the full length of her body"
Unspoken, Notes to a Foreigner, and Turn the Page
by Candy Tothill, February 2009
"looking at each other
through thin lips
that cut the space
between us—"
Within the Ear, Child Moment Parallel, and Of Opposites
by Felino Soriano, February 2009
"condensed forms, rain, the child running, birds
pecking rhythmically atop alphabetic
cracked concrete. This reading of listening,
full references to created semantics,"
