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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal

Laundry List The days get lost in reality on the hospital grounds where men and women die as death takes no days off. In the laundry room the sheets of the afternoon are washed. They are to be used again in all areas of the hospital. Death and cleaning go on as waste gets disposed.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: John Stickney

“The Memory Twins Huff and Puff and Rescue the Day“

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Richard Modiano

Poem for Danny Baker The world of real life, the raw urgency of the moment— the taste of black coffee, of charred red meat, the recoil of the Glock in your hand, the poem that forms in your brain— waits for us beneath history, its mysteries passed down through generations in the currency of momentsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Richard Modiano”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Brian Rilhmann

I’d Like To Say… I tell him nicely a couple of times— not into dudes but he persists sends me shots of his mouth wide open tongue out please let me he says you won’t be disappointed he’ll even meet me at a gloryhole pay me a hundred to let him do it I imagineContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Brian Rilhmann”