Poetry Red White Blue 14 Feb 202215 Feb 2022 Crash landingLaying in bed or staring while standingThere is no key in my pocketRing the doorbell, hope someone will unlock itBleeding away anxietyWhen it’s gone, what will be left of…
Submission Again 17 Jan 2022 Below is a submission from an anonymous poet. I can’t look you in the eyes, againGetting worse, againI haven’t smoked in six days, feeling weak againFeeling everything and nothing, againFeeling…
Poetry Quagmire 4 May 202031 Dec 2021 Disappointment seeps through every member of the wanderer's bodyAnd through every exhausted ventricle of his destitute heartHe’s done everything from the noble to infantile to the shoddyEvery effort rent to…
Poetry Monk Five to Pilgrim Seven Checkmate 8 Apr 202031 Dec 2021 Burning down belowThe itch of self-destructionDecades without compunctionThe interminable rabid pony show Better as a consecrated religiousThoughts were more prestigiousFar less desperate and superstitiousLess fraught with consternationLess submersion in self-flagellationLess…
Poetry Valkyrie 5 Apr 202031 Dec 2021 She isn’t going to callYou’re just going to have to fallIt’s just a crystal ballYou’re supposed to lose hope It doesn’t mean you don’t have a futureIt just means your…
Poetry Wavering Departure 2 Mar 202031 Dec 2021 Your meandering mind is an ostentatiously fabricated sword with a double edgeEvery thought is a fevered recapitulation of Pascal’s wager engendered with an urge to hedgeYour necrotic toes curl with…