One Sentence Poems

Barry Marks Life. In Metric Feet. The I am that is life moves from proud trochee to adamant iamb to the last pyrrhic dance to silence. Barry Marks is facing reality one sentence at a time.

Barry Marks Viagra Commercial Now that I’m done chuckling about the 4-hour erection, I look at your photo and realize that my heart is no longer healthy enough for sex. As a lawyer, Barry Marks finds attempting to express himself in a single sentence to be extremely challenging. (Editors Note: He did fine.)

Barry Marks At 63, I am finally old enough that I no longer have to explain being bad at softball and basketball, remembering birthdays or pretending that what you’re saying really makes a difference. As a lawyer, Barry Marks finds attempting to express himself in a single sentence to be extremely challenging.

Barry Marks Conjoined Truth One of us needs to be the blonde girl in the torn blue sweater saying I love you I have always loved you so the other of us can be the tall man with the cigarette saying I know I have always known I am sorry. As a lawyer, Barry Marks […]

Barry Marks Muse My mother taught me to swim by moving backward in the pool as I flailed, frantic to reach her, her voice saying I’m right here, just swim to me. Barry Marks is a Birmingham, Alabama attorney and poet whose book, Possible Crocodiles, was winner of the Alabama State Poetry Society’s 2010 Book of […]

Barry Marks What Was Lost Because of the fear because of the years without the fear we will never again make love nakedly. Barry Marks is a Birmingham, Alabama attorney whose poetry, fiction, articles and essays have been published in nearly 100 journals, magazines and periodicals. His book of poetry, Possible Crocodiles (Brick Road Poetry Press), […]