Archive for 2010

First Avenue Downtown San Diego – A Poem by Lucio Cooper

In Poetry on March 12, 2010 at 9:08 pm

First Avenue Downtown San Diego

So I beat the pavement
for a while
dirty shoes keeping time
black teeth,
drowned in coffee,
feeding time from a weak mind,
drenched by the poison cloud
of downtown haze,
I head toward the ocean,
for a piece of salt breeze,

and hot black coffee.   Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s Eat Out All the Time – A Poem By Nick Mitchell

In Poetry on March 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm

Let’s eat out all the time

If you’d looked
At anyone
Else like that, they’d
Have taken you for a vile
Specimen

I guess I don’t
Know any
Better
Ha
Ha

It’s OK to laugh
When you’re
Not around,
Generally I mean Read the rest of this entry »

Two Poems by Emily Somerset

In Poetry on February 28, 2010 at 7:06 pm

Pirate

Your father burnt you in ways
That make the nights long and wrecked
In a way that my tongue
Free of blasphemy and coarseness cannot soothe

Your father told lies with his hands
Now you walk without delicateness or trepidation
Look at you plundering the seas, sea plunderer!
Taking what you can, sea plunderer! Pirate! Read the rest of this entry »

Inspiration – A Poem by Ryan Ritchie

In Poetry on February 21, 2010 at 7:16 pm

Inspiration

found at the bottom of a can of beer

or in the midst of the final

exhale of pot smoke

a good book

a bad book

a song that makes sad people happy Read the rest of this entry »

A Very Short Story From Nick Mitchell

In Fiction on February 6, 2010 at 1:45 pm

Come Home

I went home to visit my family. A train to Hebden Bridge then a replacement bus service to Dewsbury by way of apology for the railway line that had been temporarily closed. My mother picked me up at Dewsbury station and we drove through the dilapidated West Yorkshire landscape to her compact home, where I ate a meal of dry beef and soggy chips. Read the rest of this entry »

Two Poems by Lee Lincecum

In Poetry on January 30, 2010 at 12:31 pm

drive by lover

the soft gasp of your surrender is deafening

in the fast lane i steal your breath

because i need fuel to rev up my idle heart

my tongue aches to dance inside your womb Read the rest of this entry »