by Renee Overstreet | Feb 15, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Renee Overstreet
Insidious childlike angelic pest adorned with pewter black wings must you make such nauseating spectacles of foolishly smitten human beings? Grotesquely flaunting gaudiness in mouth-to-mouth displays of public affection so hideous I am blinded with dismay. Unearthly...
by Renee Overstreet | Feb 15, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Renee Overstreet
Baby, I can’t explain a lot of silly things I do. I can also feel the pain every time that I hurt you. My shortcomings must be difficult for your love to endure. But when you hold me in your arms I know that I am yours. I am yours in the morning when your hair...
by Russell Fuller | Feb 6, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Tia Kessler
He was the wolf I was the child. Trembling expectant shift of paradigm renewal smoky forests at the water’s edge. He was the wolf I trembled brave child too naive to be afraid. Cocaine heart breakers in the heartland of America. He was the wolf I was wide-eyed...
by Russell Fuller | Feb 6, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Tia Kessler
Wash in the river To remove my sins, Blood-stained soul. Preacher man says I can’t go home. Well, I’ve bathed In every creek Across Kentucky Haven’t found one That set me free. So I’ve been walking for miles Down these dusty roads Looking to rest My weary soul....
by Russell Fuller | Feb 5, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Tia Kessler
Grey slate sky November air assaulted ears— searching Lost River for my father’s eyes. Broken bird’s nest, old wooden bridge, toppled fungi towers, empty trails. The bitter wind swallowed my tears, searching Lost River for my father’s eyes I’d...
by WileyQuixote | Feb 5, 2014 | Blogs, Poems, Wiley Quixote
I don’t want to be that guy Found dead in his apartment in middle age Succumbed to self-indulgence Compelled by the very darkness That impelled him to succeed I’m no celebrity There’d be no shouting about it on every channel The newsfeeds would not be flush with...
