Bedrieger Junction

"Misfits in the Front Row" release reading with James Benger and Sarah Worrel, 5/1/21 8 pm:

Notes Towards an Ontology, by Basil Cartryte and Bryant Jacobi

Notes Toward an Ontology, by Basil Cartryte and Bryant Jacobi, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Produce Haiku

The ugliness of the Gorgons / is a myth...

Friday, May 14th at 8 pm, Riverfront Readings features Linda Rodriguez and Mary Troy: https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=57&more=1

Somehow I escaped non-existence...

Immortality Slighter than an atom is to the Earth am I to the universe, my life to the life of the cosmos. A raindrop in a hurricane, a rose petal torn off and rushed along by storm winds, a hummingbird's egg crushed by an...

Putting on Cyrano For D.K. Putting on Cyrano de Bergerac makes everbody adolescent horny. For a few weeks we all moon, romantic and doomed. You had a bit part and I was in wardrobe, but we were the stars in our own star-crossed...

Social Drinking I never drink alone. Summer afternoon: As I sit on my porch, My fingers curled around A sweating glass of scotch, Chickadees sing to me And cicadas gossip. A shy breeze flirts, kissing My cheek with her cool lips Before...

Predation Proud The eagle is old. His feathers are greasy, ragged, lousy. Half-blind, he blinks against the sun he once looked in the face, equal to equal. Hungry. He’s always hungry. He spies a wake of vultures tearing at a rotting...

Agkistrodon contortrix This city's asquirm with vipers. You risk meeting one when you step off the curb or turn back your sheets. A civic group beheaded the snake that bit poor Mr. Farmer, and the air grew thick with confetti and heavy...

Poem redacted because it's been accepted for a litzine. Have a digital doodle thing instead!

late april snow not yet here is here -- sylvester hobson ”late april snow” by sylvester hobson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at...

An AI Attempts an Imagist Poem NEARBY I SUMMARIZE HISTORY WHILE STANDING BEHIND A CAT. A man in a porkpie hat is holding a piece of pizza and a bouquet of black and white flowers with a pair of scissors he waves at a red banana...

No sound from the rain. Footsteps echo in the hotel hall. -- Carl Bettis ”No sound from the rain” by Carl Bettis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at...

Taken for Granted I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!" -- Nina Simone Freedom to put off fixing that taillight on a car that still flaunts an Obama bumper sticker. Freedom to buy one item and...

A Disquisition Upon Pyramids I don't believe, just to make it clear, that space aliens built the pyramids in Egypt or that Egyptians built the pyramids in Mexico or that wizards built Stonehenge. But I know space aliens exist. Back when...

i have a question i have a question or two for grass blades growing lushly green who in four months time will break brittle underfoot and for the mockingbird now loud who will be then silent and for the changeable moon who never...

Click on the small, cropped image for the complete image. The poem is more than the text alone, but the text is below. The Rose Tree's Complaint The soul is the missing body that would prove the crime. The corpse sings & everyone hears...