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Tag: Poetry

Ghazal: Mono America

In response to the 2024 Presidential Election Pumpkins sallow on the doorstep of mono America.A womb is now a rental … More

Donald Trump, ghazal, Poetry, Political Poetry, Presidential Election

Diary: October 2024

Books Read: New York City 1979 by Kathy Acker, Modern Nature by Derek Jarman, The Haunting of Hill House by … More

collage, diary, Fiction, journaling, literature, Poetry, Sestina, Sylvia Plath, Vanity

Exit Satan’s Men & Other Poems

Exit Satan’s Men Cento April is the colonnade of rain keeping us warm with dried tubers. Between rosed lips, stillness … More

Cento, Creative Writing, ghazal, literature, Poetry

The Butcherbird: A Collage

The funeral eye sleeps like a criminal Sources:

collage, Collage Art, Collage Artist, Derek Jarman, Poetry

Ogygia

Nobody can save me. Not from myself, nor the elements. Thunder electrocutes my heart. Utterly barbecued —The grill marks resemble … More

literature, mythology, poem, Poetry

She Smells Like a Gun

I’m four days late and I cannot contain this immense rage building inside of me. She grows monthly, like a … More

CNF, essay, Menstruation, Period, personal essay, Poetry

The Philistine at Downing

To Rishi Sunak Garish ghouls in their wooden cabinet send our coins to burn to a cinder.  Woken by the … More

literature, Poetry, Political Poetry, Politics

Diary: April ’24

“Now the babies are crying, I must take them out to tea.” —The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II “April … More

Poetry, Stage, Theatre, writing community

Hanahaki

“Hanahaki disease (花吐き病 (Japanese); 하나하키병 (Korean); 花吐病 (Chinese)) is a fictional disease where the victim of unrequited or one-sided love … More

japan, North West, Poetry, writing community

Poetry Postmortem (8) / Patient: The Tears of Things by Maya C. Popa

Author’s Note: The Poetry Postmortem is where I take a poem I or someone else wrote and I discuss it … More

Arts, Cultural Criticism, Culture, literature, poems, Poetry, t-s-eliot

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