I wish I were at some bar in hell where the whiskey burns but I’m drunk and I’m dead and the heat is a charring change from this place in …
Someone Else (Tara Mokhtari)
So Mister long dark long hair Mister heroin cheeks you’re back in my town tonight curing me from everyman with that sweet charm injection calm and loving embracive rejection …
Transition (Sonja Meyer)
____A swing ___________set ____________________in a playground __________________________________in a park ________________________________________under a full moon and the empty swing …
Gather, Darkness (Jeremy Balius)
Part 1 When misery’s your partner, love’s just give and take to the sound of the window pane a-shudderin’. Gather, Darkness! and play your songs of heartache. Music box hums …
I shoot you at the pond (Nathan Curnow)
for Kevin Brophy ideas grow like goldfish in proportion to the space they are given you return home from your morning swim still dripping from professor to friend, breakfast begins …
Hell's Band (Mark William Jackson)
Tom Waits’ bleeding knuckles painting the piano keys, Keith Richard slits a finger soloing over the Devil’s symphony, Bukowski stands at the mic calling everyone up to fight, the …
Heroisch (Mark William Jackson)
In the dim fluorescent cubicle, amid the urine smell and graffitied penises she spoke, “did you know heroin was legal, it was developed by Felix Hoffman for Bayer Pharmaceuticals …
stamped flat stamped (Ashley Capes)
in my office between classes I rage at flat things: the sea, the land, the hard, flat dollar coin and all its friends, the road too short by far …
A Hundred Set Apart in a Herd (Shane Jesse Christmass)
sorry I wasn’t thinking my mind wasn’t apt but it was afar I was anxious to listen that was my intent & I didn’t say anything when I should’ve …
Subtext (Maxine Beneba Clarke)
when we say i don’t want to become my mother that isn’t an invitation to laugh thinking about your mother in law & maybe the way she talks too …