Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Coda By Michael K Gause Pitch black, I need to hear screaming down the street and that eternal hymn of our weakness Swears mingle with moist cool air like drunk brass arguing over the tempo An organ of tires comes screeching so I do not miss a moment’s […]
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Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Donetsk 2009
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Donetsk 2009 By Darryl Willis The Beatles stand frozen in Liverpool: songs etched on empty lips. Only tourists stop to wonder. Eleanor wanders between lifeless roses, shadows caressing her face. And in a park nearby Lenin stands alone: a nowhere man. Children have all but forgotten the dreams […]
Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, compact discontents
“There’s music in all things, if men had ears:/Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.” –Lord Byron, from Don Juan So here we are embarking on another contributor series. Aren’t these fun? As you may have guessed from the opening quote the theme of this one is music. Tonight we launch Contributor Series […]
Oxheart
Jenny Billings Beaver’s most recent poem here was Cancer. Today’s poem brings us into her world so we can almost taste those summer tomatoes and we can actually feel her loss. Oxheart By Jenny Billings Beaver Behind Poppa’s shed, he grew the best cantaloupe in town. Corn so sweet and the biggest blood red tomatoes you […]
Careless Mother
Maxwell Baumbach’s poem More appeared here in May. His first e-chapbook, Suburban Rhythm was published in September 2010 by Scars Publications in conjunction with cc&d magazine. Look for his amazing first full-length collection to be released in January 2012 by unbound CONTENT. Careless MotherBy Maxwell Baumbach I. I knew a careless mother of eight children she lost the first […]
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