I waltz into an empty ballroom yesterday the ghost of Maja haunted Goya in the streets hungry demons haunted you effervescence, the molecules of those who’ll never be, a door gets slammed a key gets turned the breath of earth is choked initiation my hair gets caught deep in the coldness of the stars my…
Category: Poetry
Quotable Poe Week Five-Kindra M. Austin
IN THE BLACK He visits the beachfront every night and shouts her name at the ireful sea. He stands at the rock-strewn coastline, his tall frame stooped and shaking as the frigid tides break before him. He laments the woman who haunts him— The Archer, a living ghost. His heartache is a fury…
Quotable Poe Week Four-Kindra M. Austin
ETERNALLY OCTOBER In his dreams, she dances in and out of shadow and luminescence. Her liquescent movements are reminiscent of a languid flame that once danced for the rose candle, which now sits cold, useless— dead since late October. He breathes deeply scents of sandalwood and rose, the essence of her hair. He…
Quotable Poe Week 4-Lynn White
Dreaming There was a time when I knew where to find you, knew the places and spaces you inhabited in my dreams, in my day and night dreams. You would be waiting there, waiting to be found, waiting to come to me revealing your secrets. Now it’s harder to discern you, to recognise your…
Quotable Poe Week Three-Bob Wertzler
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – The Premature Burial NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS At night at the circus Is the big top empty Clowns, acrobats, freaks Tucked cozy in bed Crowds so too at…
Quotable Poe Week Three-Kindra M. Austin
I Tears go by as years expand from Heaven to horizon; and I scale the mountain ranges risen in consequence of your death. Jesus, or some other guardian breathes for me whilst my lungs delight in respite from high altitudes. II In this, the winter of my youth, stillness settles deep into…
the hour of sunsets-Gabriela M.
frontiers of my being the hour of sunsets has come with bare hands I drown you in the coldest seas red lilies burn you in the hidden valley predatory birds delight on carnal straps I run barefoot through streets of no return I knock on doors a piece of bread for my entire heart oh,…
Alien Songs/Heart Song-Tanya Rakh & Ndotono Waweru
heart song I will shut my eyes I will find you here underneath the pain inside this museum of endless heartbeats, pulsing blood walls where we leak out our hunger, freely on the pervious skin of soiled existence I will find you buried in these mortal effigies, gray with entropy and vine we…
Quotable Poe Week One-Shauna Woodbury
It’s damned and it’s free. It’s torture and it’s passion. It’s you. All things to be. It’s hypocrisy and the attitude of similar fashion. It’s the cliches and the daily platitude defying the laws of attraction. It’s you. The midnights and the rainy sunrises and the white nights and the see you at the grocery…
Quotable Poe Week One-Bob Wertzler
PEERING INTO THAT DARKNESS “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;” – The Raven There is a place in the human mind A dark place A secret place A guarded place One that walls itself Inaccessible to the conscious…
Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen 