Sky | Baris Semerci
camera angle
no need for negative films
just smile a little
city sky equivalent
to trillion megapixels
creativity poems
The Reading of Fiction – A Poem by JD DeHart
Updike never sold me a day,
but I can get lost in his descriptions.
Similarly, pages of Faulkner can
bury me in dialogue.
I can coast along the erasure
of a graphic novel about Derrida.
Or I can get lost in Billy Collins’
description of getting lost in a poem.
Or listen to the verse conversation
of James Tate.
Then what race occurs
to construct my own fiction, to view
and understand the fictions others
are creating, even as I walk by them,
even maybe about me.
The Role of a Hyena | Alexandre Bartolo Knabah Júnior
My notepad
is full of grammatical deviations
delivered by the hyena with a lion’s mane.
She now fights against her own
paws, looking for some water,
in the immensity of catch phrases.
She hopes no one will interrupt her,
no one will mock her yellow wig,
no one will stamp her face in camaraderie media.
—–
Alexandre Bartolo is a Brazilian student who thrives, reads, and doesn’t understand anything at all.
At Night | Alyssa Trivett
When the demons come out to play,
I’m a comma, free-floating,
collecting pennies per minute
of sleep I’m wishing-well missing
as red numbers slam dance
on the alarm clock
and try to bribe me in Zs
and window breeze to
close the shutter eyelids.
Instead, I stand one-footed on
the library ladder
mixing up words on post-it notes
at odd hours,
like the watering time-frame of suburban lawns,
only worse.
—–
Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the Midwest. When not working two jobs, she listens to music and scrawls lines on the back of gas station receipts. Her work has recently appeared at VerseWrights, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, and Spillwords. She has fifteen poems in a poetry anthology entitled Ambrosia, released by OWS Ink, LLC. All proceeds from the anthology are being donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (afsp.org). Digital link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/742799. Amazon Kindle link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074WCLD69/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk.
Sea of Light | JD DeHart
I find myself
in a sea of light, sitting
in the midst of thunder.
Balanced on the end
of many questions.
My pen only stops
moving to collect my mind.
Then back to composing.
More at https://dehartreadingandlitresources.blogspot.com.
Clippings | JD DeHart
I have gathered the names and faces,
traced the paths back,
a not-so-ancient lineage.
I have found images of beauty
in fragments, joined them together,
and there you go.
I have put in my time with glue and
paper clips, obsessed over the combination
of colors (even though I have slight
defect in this area) only to find
I need a new hobby now.
More at https://jddehartfeaturepoems.blogspot.com.
Location | Cattail Jester
Realizing today
I don’t like who
I’ve been for a while
I wave a hearty
farewell, gone to
a new place
Creative endeavor
carries me in its arms
forward
I say gentle wishes
so long, farewell.
From the Beginning | Judy Moskowitz
She knew her place
at the end of the food chain
starting with blades of grass
nourished by the sun
an organism born
just follow the trail
and you will know her heart
taste her blood inside
the pages of a spiral notepad
splattered here and there
the remnants of love preserved
like a pressed rose
leading you to why this matters
in the end the grasshopper
is eaten by a snake