Jeff Kennedy Incubated Dreamy Bits I woke in the morning to the rain tiptoeing on the windowsill and thought. Jeff Kennedy is a Mexican-Canadian-American living in California where he writes code by day and poetry by night. His work can be found in Right Hand Pointing, Locution Zine, and elsewhere.
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Elizabeth Alford “Rush”
Elizabeth Alford Rush As if sensing my world needed brightening, all the street lamps lit up at once — and for a moment, I forgot (with a child’s neon wonderment) there‘s no such thing as magic. Elizabeth Alford (Hayward, CA) spends long hours typing short poems on her iPhone. http://facebook.com/ElizabethAlfordPoetry
Read MoreLisa Zaran “Subordinate”
Lisa Zaran Subordinate Maybe that’s what she meant when I saw her for just that moment, handcuffed and gleeful, a thinker without a filter, propped on the curb while police roamed around her, cigarette dangling between her lips Lisa Zaran thinks life is a dream full of toothaches and heartbreaks.
Read MoreLisa Zaran “Father Won’t You Be My Friend”
Lisa Zaran Father Won’t You Be My Friend It’s not because I was your daughter you treated me in such a way as if the sweetness lay in not having to talk about anything important, our conversations weighed on sugar and soft and when you died I craved salt. Lisa Zaran thinks life is a […]
Read MoreLisa Zaran “Falling Star”
Lisa Zaran Falling Star I feel in some ways a child again, living in a moment, reliving a memory that has just now crept up, I follow the path of dreams, I deserve the world. Lisa Zaran thinks life is a dream full of toothaches and heartbreaks.
Read MoreLisa Zaran “You Tell Me I Am Wrong”
Lisa Zaran You Tell Me I Am Wrong I shift my gaze because to look you in the eyes may cause tenderness and everyone at some point in their lives dreams of winning. Lisa Zaran thinks life is a dream full of toothaches and heartbreaks.
Read MoreF. J. Bergmann “We Call This Living”
F. J. Bergmann We Call This Living White and angular, my mother’s plastic-upholstered furniture expressed not minimalism, but absence. F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. Work appears irregularly in Analog, Asimov’s, Polu Texni, Pulp Literature, Silver Blade, and other places. A […]
Read MoreNachman of Breslov “A Very Narrow Bridge,” translated by Catherine B. Krause
Nachman of Breslov translation from Hebrew by Catherine B. Krause נחמן מברסלב — כל העולם כולו כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד והעיקר — לא לפחד כלל. A Very Narrow Bridge The whole world is all a very narrow bridge, and what’s important is to fear nothing at all. Rebbe Nachman (1772-1810) achieved much acclaim as […]
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