The beer’s flowing, and, high in the driver’s seat of an ice resurfacing machine, I’m tipsy in tea-length chiffon. I’m tired of being good. I shall embark on a pattern of mild infractions. I shall give out my sought-after phone number— perhaps to that strapping groomsman I spied from the car as the wedding party […]
Poetry 68
Susan Briante: UNQUIET
Vertex of the Chrysler Building, pray for me; linemen, bartenders, muses, pray for me; crow covered highway, sing for me; over the bridge of a Washburn 6-string, lay me; crazed molecule! terse atom! play for me; with the moans of forklifts, speak for me; in satin, sable, calico, adorn me; squat propane containers of Bayonne, […]
Aaron Balkan: For the Monumental Stockbroker in Liberty Park, Manhattan
A man opens his briefcase to double check, and a wind lifts the papers out of his lap, tossing them over his head like hovering sea birds. It whips a newspaper at him, then flyers torn from lampposts, plastic bags, a tablecloth from an outdoor café— more paper covers his feet and the bench and […]
Lauren Acampora: Tree Costume
Simpering along with you swaddled in a tree costume I know you are in there as I am in my coat Both of us warm and waterproof with the elements at bay You dressed as a tree I like a coat We feel wild together Simpering wanting to hang from electrical wires and make the […]