where is the river :: a poetry experiment

Eva Monhaut :: Two poems J.D. Nelson :: Four poems Paul Ilechko :: Three poems Matthew Freeman :: Five poems rob mclennan :: Three poems

  Moses Visits the Fire Zone His face a cavity      as ground opens              (subtracting the happiness problem)       his darkness lit            by smoldering flame   replays show in slow-motion       manna for the YouTube generation              (blue flame of screen)   the burn       spreading       from low to high the mountains becoming soot       as all is consumed        *      *      *      *      *      *      *   watch the crows        circling            in smoke waves       in calligraphic patterns          ...

Katy Lederer :: Five poems J.L Moultrie :: Flowers Only Confess When They're Alone Paul Ilechko :: Two poems Roxanna Bennett :: Four poems rob mclennan :: from the book of smaller

Fractions (Sound Examined) Squeeze the fractions from out of my heart      the thirds and quarters      leaving only wholeness  squeeze out language      let sound replace gesture as the guiding principle  remembering that everything is abstraction at some level      we build our own patterns to model the things that we believe in a life even half-lived is a better life than one never lived at all      we live out our partials as we search for completeness  as we search for complexity inside the “natural”                    * * * * * I am in a room inside a house sitting at a glass desk that reflects only what has angles to light sources I am searching for a certain state a certain stage where quietness is possible where the sound of traffic whispers past in a series of small crescendos       ...