Can’t get that execution out of my head, damn. Took 26 minutes to kill him, some new-fangled poison not the usual, a half-baked horror show. Sour drugs flowed through blue veins, the prisoner strapped to a gurney gasped, vacant eyes staring, rattling, nose snorting, choking almost guttural– like food stuck in your windpipe on and …
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down at bohemian caverns upstairs over the pharmacy Rahsaan explodes the room manzello, strich, nose flute all blues, nothing abstract multi-everything, humming I never recovered The post DC Experience | Stan Morrison appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for Stuart Wright, 1979. Price: $300.00 Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 7” x 16”. A bit of faint creasing else fine. Only 30 copies printed; printed as…
the stars sing far above the boundaries of my life beyond my ragged thoughts blinking and flaring starlight traveling for light years distance and time and space inconsequential lights streaking across the sky throwing endings and beginnings touching and linking with streaks of starlight a web of luminous thread capturing in streams of light the…
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I have a favorite kind of poem in January: origin poems, fables, midrash. After all, the first month of the year is the time to begin again. Or at least to imagine one can begin again. Today I’ve been reading and rereading this sonnet by Diane Raptosh, which is the opening poem in her collection,…
