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Bright Capital

11.22.11 Posted in today's words by

Steve Minchin’s poem Made w. 100% Concrete appeared here in July 2011. Bright CapitalBy Steven Minchin Light marquees with glitter and paste without luster or stick Set free banners with trademarks and tales without getting noticed and celebrate Crayola capitalism with scribbles and screams Multi-targeting like marquees blaring By Me Buy Me make art like a mask […]


Autumn’s Song From Tomorrow

11.21.11 Posted in today's words by

PMPope is an American frontiersman and a maverick in the fields of spoken word performance art and the newly emergent field of digital artwork. Embracing the constant barrage of electronic media and hyperreactive communications, PMPope watches the event horizon with a keen interest in historic, current, and future events. This is his first poem to […]


Peaceable Kingdom

11.21.11 Posted in words to linger on by

Bette Hileman’s most recent poem to appear here was Burying Ashes (October 2011). This poem evolved from a dream. It maintains a dreamy quality throughout. Peaceable Kingdom By Bette Hileman I arrived in Africa yesterday and spent my first night, apparently, alone in a double bed in a small cottage. When I woke, the room was filled […]


Rituals of Lost Purpose

11.20.11 Posted in today's words by

R Martin Basden’s most recent poem to appear here was The Anchors of Our Lives (October 2011). Rituals of Lost PurposeBy R Martin Basden Rituals of lost purpose are bad habits worn trails bordered by weeds bearing no flower padded narrow in a terrain of flavorless monoculture cloning itself Interruption by schism might turn some to push […]


Flashbacks

11.19.11 Posted in today's words by

Liz Farrell’s most recent poem to appear here was The Party Ends (September 2011). FlashbacksBy Liz Farrell Biking through town Unsure of a destination Positive to be nowhere bound. The sun hits your face Wind through your hair Sweat glistening, pulse racing A simple pleasure with so much promise. It was so easy to escape then. Youth […]


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