Osmanthus Presents: Angela Weiser This poem belongs to a three-part series.Links to the other parts below. Part I: Mountain Slope of Bedside Sun Part II: Nightlong Question
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Part II: Nightlong Question
Osmanthus Presents: Angela Weiser This poem belongs to a three-part series.Links to the other parts below. Part I: Mountain Slope of Bedside Sun Part III: Hold Still
Part I: Mountain Slope of Bedside Sun
Osmanthus Presents: Angela Weiser This poem belongs to a three-part series.Links to the other parts below. Part II: Nightlong Question Part III: Hold Still
TAP ACOUSTIC
BY Kenzo Tobechukwu Oh, hail the bodies who succeed to look at their flesh in the mirror without pity. You have mastered the art of acceptance and of denial. I have only mastered one. It brings dense nothingness to my shoulders. Though, I will admit, this might be the greatest love affair. I remember the … Continue reading TAP ACOUSTIC
FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
BY CARL WATTS I Without a salaam or ceremony, hole of the rock, other following him; brightness washed from a winter swimmer as peoples made small, finely chipped arrowheads. Skiffs scuffed to look sufficiently skiff, mottled globe to a continent of glaring peaks nearer and nearer the beholder, translated from one world to another. Utterly … Continue reading FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
OSMANTHUS TALE
BY G. LEPY Write write and write again After joy slowly tame pain I was writing and it was the year two thousand and nineteen I was hunting for words unseen Through fans they were empty I asked friends they laughed at me For who can pretend To end Humans glorious, mute, vain, pompous, deafening … Continue reading OSMANTHUS TALE
EATING MEAT
BY LaVana Colebrooke “Do you still do that?” he asked me and his eye turned down and his face turned in. And I felt all my internal shift begin. GUILT Feeling caught by the net of friendship and rope burned by the bondage's of emotional relationships. NERVOUS I’m not completely sure of this process of … Continue reading EATING MEAT
ACT LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER
BY J. MILLER Call me downriverto talk likeI am nothere. You use theword cockroachI don't need amirror to see them.That's sheer agony anyways. Let's just make theword safe, so the whole riverwon't go to the trash incinerator. It's gggoing tocost a lot to redirect this river.Feel awake again, do the butter-fly. I'm starting to wake, … Continue reading ACT LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER
MORPH
BY SARAH WEBSTER To undergo or to cause to undergo a gradual process of transformation. The longer we spent together, the more contorted we be-- came. I wrapped myself in you, and you did the same. As we laid in bed at night, I wondered who we were. Our naked bodies lying still sheets thrown … Continue reading MORPH
CHIAROSCURO
BY G. LEPY The undefeated sun in the windowCasting shadowEnough enoughGone awayLonely star of the dayI broke the glassAnd the light shattered to smithereens
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