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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good
Excreta My mother went into the hospital for heart surgery and never came out. Afterwards, my father tried to kill himself three times. The last time the lights in the house went “Pop!” I was about to turn nine. I remember because I had just won an award at school for most improved speller. You’reContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marc Olmsted
VACCINE Inoculate hungerInject educationUnplug Virus X tweeting!Mask socialism calling it“free health care”Drain oil abscessfrom gasoline planet’s armSocial distance the copsclubs & guns sheathedin weeping empathy –Police dog’s head of angernow stretched outon massive paws big sigh asleep
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Mark James Andrews
Happy Birthday Mother Fucker I’ll tell you I never liked ice fishing and forget about going on sunny days especially as late as the Ides of March when JC was assassinated, the other JC the one whacked by the Brutus and Cassius gang Julius F. Caesar knife, knife, knife bad juju and damning hubris butContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Mark James Andrews”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Kevin M. Hibshman
Different Day It’s a different day. Hope registers as a pain very familiar yet impossible to locate. Last night tossed aloft on a pure wave of intoxication. It’s a different day. I wake up feeling strange. Everything looks the same, but the air has shifted, altering cognition. I recognize the stains. It’s a different day.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Kevin M. Hibshman”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Daniel J. Flore III
My Day I’m sittingand watchingthe carsgo by they carryaway myday ontheir hoods my daylooks sogood asit passesme by that Imight evenlive it
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Kushal Poddar
The Roadkill You already have arisen to the steady sobbing. “Do you think her son is still locked inside?” I step out. Night has left its sanguine plumes on our staircase; its predator moans in the darkness; spring mates in the pollen ridden milieu with humid heat. No snivelling I hear. Your hands have theContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Kushal Poddar”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marc Olmsted
Busted Busted the zipper on my jeans, fatso blue hair fading growing out grey-black beard already snowy – 66 maybe 20 years left. “We’re building a community of health and wellness” – the billboard promises – while here comes Homeless Dirty Hands with his label’d Zombie Survival Kit bag Was the girl in the faux snowContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marc Olmsted”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE #1
Dumpster Fire Press is proud to announce the first release for National Poetry Month… VOICES FROM THE FIRE volume 1…. Spotlighting voices heard, seldom heard or never heard at all. First featured on the VOICES FROM THE FIRE series , we’ve got poets , writers and artist spanning from here, there and everywhere in-between… of courseContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE #1”
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