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Death's Daughter

23 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Within a midnight storm, in which no star glimmers Or moon glows, as lightning flashes, and thunder Roars, a ghastly sight sloshes amidst a bog’s muck, The air, thick with the stench of decay and damp earth. Her hair is knotted, unctuous; her eyes,...

Poem For Judee Sill

15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The spirit bomb has ruptured at theseam Life is not a dreamin lowerCalifornia The nightmare is a joyride And no sorrow is likeyours, myfriend; Silence is our tomb And we would have beenin love; We would have shaken itto pieces As only damaged soulsc...

Television Eve

11 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

It's television eve inTel Aviv You don't even have to ask usabout Damascus There's a new deli inNew Delhi, a newgirl inBerlin, andan old pair of dragonedqueens In NewOrleans, rippingwormholesin their jeans To the soundof Shostakovich,singing Likea [R...

Return of the Ghost

5 Nov 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The war is in words and the wood is the world."Weldon Kees   Weldon Kees was a poet who disappeared in San Francisco at the age of 41.  His wife was an alcoholic, and had a psychotic break while watching the McCarthy hearings on TV.  She was institu...

The Inside Oven Oven

2 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

It was hot outside todaylike the insideoven oven All the grasson the moonis black; The beach is graylike a cigarettetray, The mountains madeof ash, andcracks Will formin the lunarclay; The ocean of snow will be revealed; I walked awayfrom the smokin...

Debt Wish

18 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments PulitzerPen

Analogs all around me, because we are all equal, a chance is an opportunity usually if its seen in sequel, propriety means best in class, I think I passed, but I couldn't do math, now charts and graphs seem so in tact, everything in life is a sequenc...

¿Qué Tal, Carlos Marrón?

15 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Today was the darkestsunny day I've everseen The shadows were bright There was a butterflyfight Deep within my bones. ¿Qué tal,Carlos Marrón?   The soda man was doing business with adoor,and a gale of brightand hatefullightblew the fingersout of my...

2024–09–02

21 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments newb0Xsir

The ethereal missionOut of guilt or omissionsWith a progressive transitionWe strive ahead It’s what we’ve been toldFor as long as time is oldDon’t be cheaply bought or soldFor your worthClarityThoughtsMatterNone can be takenNor mistakenFor anything l...

VERO PEACE

9 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments TheAiCollectiveArt

VERO PEACEPOEM: Lights and shadows, works of mercy, cure of souls,We don't get much to care for, life takes its tolls,But your love's greater than death, I eat your pain,Partake I stake with those shaken from slumber's chain. Tales of old wake them u...

You and Me

9 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Bobbob

We walk the street and we vanish just two of us that is only you and me.   We both walk not to run away but to set ourself free   We walked out so we could atleas walk a mile together into this shady town beyond these hills and under the shade of tre...