Dead Men Walk, The Critters in this House, and Our Tax Dollars at Work
by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, July 2008
"In the kitchen mosquitoes hover over scraps
of food on the dirty plates in the sink.
The slugs in the bathroom slide slowly on
the mold collecting on the peeling paint on the wall."
getting your stripes, notebook, and this man hauling rebar at the flying-j
by Justin Hyde, July 2008
"you've been fired from a job
lived with women
married to women
you no longer suck in that gut"
Yes, Another Day, The Details, and Where To Now?
by M. Blake, July 2008
"Keep going on (yes, you might as well accept it),
A familiar voice can make a difference,
A sympathetic ear, a knowing laugh
With no answers, of course, but a sad smile"
Relatively Speaking and Rock Band Tour
by Ellaraine Lockie, July 2008
"The attorney reads some personal ads out loud
Says he wouldn't hesitate to fly anywhere
in the world to bring back the right woman
But he'd leave her mother there"
Jesus Woman at the Alaska State Library and Jimmy and Gerald
by John Oliver Hodges, July 2008
"When you get old you're going to be ugly. Look at me.
I'm forty-nine and I'm beautiful because I'm
pure of heart. You filthy-minded whores, all you know
how to do is cause trouble for the good people"
The New Prophets Say Beware and I Asked God to Send the Rain
by Elizabeth P. Glixman, July 2008
"Other days the mix is overlapping rot
mixing like sewage in the ocean.
There is a possibility of a circle
of gas and flames in today’s tale,"
from On the Islands with Norbu Rinpoche
by Louise Landes Levi, July 2008
Today
the Man was
saying he didn't even
THINK of teaching pelicans or fish
Travel Journal, bark the silence and brown wood box
by john e, July 2008
"it's okay
having three green legs and
having to crawl.
that guy over there
has it worser."
Extreme Fire Danger, Egyptian Book of the Dead and Viagra, and Mulberry Fields (Forever)
by Belinda Subraman, June 2008
"In ancient times also
there were mind explorers,
body worshippers,
disappointments to their mothers."
Out of there and White, Black and Jew
by Steve Ben Israel, June 2008
"and enter the nouveau french cafés
and sip the ten dollar martini
all thinking they are the loneliest
person in the world"
Edward Hopper Foster Care and There Is a House
by Gerard Sarnat, June 2008
"So please come back, help clean up
this god-awful mess: our once sweet home
now stinks like a Bogalusa cow patch."
It Is What It Is and Spiritus Veritas
by Paul E. Sexton III, June 2008
"I prefer that feeling.
That dried up feeling.
That spent feeling.
That empty feeling."
Travel Journal, bark the silence and brown wood box
by john e, July 2008
"it's okay
having three green legs and
having to crawl.
that guy over there
has it worser."
Extreme Fire Danger, Egyptian Book of the Dead and Viagra, and Mulberry Fields (Forever)
by Belinda Subraman, June 2008
"In ancient times also
there were mind explorers,
body worshippers,
disappointments to their mothers."
Out of there and White, Black and Jew
by Steve Ben Israel, June 2008
"and enter the nouveau french cafés
and sip the ten dollar martini
all thinking they are the loneliest
person in the world"
Edward Hopper Foster Care and There Is a House
by Gerard Sarnat, June 2008
"So please come back, help clean up
this god-awful mess: our once sweet home
now stinks like a Bogalusa cow patch."
It Is What It Is and Spiritus Veritas
by Paul E. Sexton III, June 2008
"I prefer that feeling.
That dried up feeling.
That spent feeling.
That empty feeling."
spitting sideways into the wind and Family Gathering or Another Reason to Drink
by David LaBounty, June 2008
"the blood is
common,
connected,
and has
to be thinned"
My Brother's Bald Tattooed Head and We Wish You the Best of Luck Placing Your Manuscript Elsewhere
by Luis Rivas, June 2008
"but today he shaved his
head bald again and tomorrow
he might go back to jail."
Landslides
by k. m. gallagher, June 2008
"focus, i am a house of rubble, pull out from beneath the ruined pangs of sobriety, set on collapsing your aura clear into an ocean of visual and sonic phenomena. prisms and mirrors abound, buried under the color of headlights in rainwater at night, them dissipating with glassy shadows. swaying with the dashboard, while radios speak and jumbo jets are soaring over lonely motels."
Cheated, Spit, and The memory of you is illegal; my heart has laws
Cecilia Ferreira, June 2008
"my brain and my body
left me
for that inevitable
rendezvous"
Doppelganger
by James Lineberger, May 2008
"if you really want the truth
i'm almost none
of the things i claim to be except perhaps
intermittently
and i don't love you i don't"
Apocalypse Generation and Everything I Say Is A Poem
by RC Edrington, May 2008
"She hadn't spoken since they found her. No failed gunshot. No blood trailing from the wrist like some polluted stream where teenagers toss beer bottle caps and watch them float drunkenly into tomorrow. No pill bottle next to her rain slick body to reflect the emptiness she tried to leave behind."
March Sixth and Any Heart
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, May 2008
"his head hanging, his hands caught
between his knees, fingers locked,
his mind in a sixty-cycle hum,
not praying, certainly not imagining"
India Calling, Confluence, and Aashish Nandan
by Patrick Revere, May 2008
"i am one man
named after one god
who rests now on straw
after rice and roti"
$107.00, A Little Bit of History, and The Devil Speaks to Me
by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, May 2008
"I felt like I
was being raped
in my sleep. I
trusted no one."
Flies, Killing myself, and Again
by sj McEniff, May 2008
"I was once
Trembling with possibilities
Stiff with dead eyed desire
Perfumed with inky flesh"
S.O.S., House, and Defaced
by Cecilia Ferreira, May 2008
"those trees
are suicidal again
tonight"
City Heat, On the Correlation of Certain Abnormalities of the Metabolic System and the Manifestation of Key Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Case Study of Wendy, and i Don't Like Your God
by Kyle Hemmings, May 2008
"I plucked the hairs of ten unwed
grandmothers and offered them to her
in atonement for the granite-colored
sky, her father's failed falafel shop,"
Road Signs <and Prophecies>, After Last Mutation, and Under the Weather
by Elizabeth Kate Switaj, May 2008
"these crystals to congeal
in six-point feathers from sky require
something to cling to
to be called beautiful by you"
First Offense, Sour Head, and The Dwellers
by Alan King, April 2008
"toasty sandwich aromas drift
among fragrant café con leche, and
you recall when Ellington's mural was
moved for Quiznos and Starbucks"
