Bea Wain, “You Go to My Head”

Eyes closed and hands together in prayer we bow our heads to the ground. A sordid reek coming from a weak, fragmented financial system pricks our nostrils and trickles tears from our eyes. Horrid images of children with no childhood flashes before our eyes, no tangible relief in sight. They may have played golf on…

A beautifully produced little book of collaborations (or what the authors call “twoness” poems) has just been published. Called We Eclipse into the Other Side, the book, by Miho Kinnas & Ethelbert Miller, is filled with gorgeous short poems marked by a potent synthesis of mystery and clarity, as in these two:         Related Stories…

Masks upon enticing masks, Identities fade away, Hungry for vivid dreams, Wishes fade away, Light felt too dark, The dark felt too light! Goodbyes sneak in, The hellos fade away. The post Facades | JayM appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

Through a Country   You, on the one hand, see a land Green and rolling With chalky marble And stretches of yellowed sandstone Patched here and there into the hills, Coming up for air after eons of sleep. While I on the other hand say Here collisions occurred A hundred million moons ago With valleys…

Kate Middelton’s recently published book length poem Television (Giramando) is an emotional survey of the poet’s tv watching history. Both in its form and compositional approach, the poem owes much to A.R. Ammons’s Garbage. As Middleton writes in the book’s notes, “Re-reading Garbage, I was struck by the fact that in taking garbage as his…

Consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached to it, is a mere fruit, a product, in fact a parasite, of the rest of the organism, in so far…