Cindy Poems Lighting fickles and cool downpours of silken whereabouts sliding doors to countless encounters of flesh pounded into love wet degraded unearth triangular flies and hopped-up bunnies looking for ragweed time capsules Where is fairyland ? Sodden nightmares that quake with resistance unilateral timekeepers await further instructions helium balloons full of piss and cumContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cynthia Scott”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marie D. Moldovan
Androgynous I was but thirteen years of age, You called me a disgusting fag, Not the kind you roll and toke, But instead, the one butted in joke. What a joke!?! You were my mother; you should have known better To ask a question you didn’t want answered. Seeking labels confining letter… …To openlyContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Marie D. Moldovan”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Kenneth Vincent Walker
From Rome to Ruins Impoverished beyond Belief; where relief has Long past been viable Option over abject grief. Ostensibly, refusing to Cease, as Man’s greed Always gets in the way Of genuine prosperity. For how can we binge Drink at college when Our world thirsts and Hungers knowledge? These words are far More prophetic thanContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Kenneth Vincent Walker”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Mark James Andrews
Assisi Triptych Francis St. Frankie plucked a strawberry off the curb in a snow patch on 8 Mile Road and planted her in the shag carpet at New York Dominic’s big ranch crib on Windmill Point, another white lie as the big wet snowflakes of the false Spring killed the crocuses. The strawberry’s black patchContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Mark James Andrews”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter
Becoming old First it reminds me most friends are dead.Well, that is just the way of things, what can I expect ?Did I think they would wait for me, give me a chance to catch up?I tried.Because I wanted my to be together again, talk for hours over a cup.Well, that seemed more probable thanContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Matthew McGuirk
Coins Between Bed Sheets A jingling between sheets at 1am, 2am, 3am. Coins caught in coverlets, trapped to tink off each other as the clock wears time thin until pinks and oranges light eastern skies and the alarm clock sounds trumpets for a new day. Jousting in the Dark Turning words in my head likeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Matthew McGuirk”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: George Schaefer
THE DRUNKENING The drunkening is underway and I’ll say it wasn’t my fault but I know it was fully an occurrence of my own choosing I’ll heartily swallow the rotgut whiskey and without memory stumble back to the train station avoiding law enforcement on auto pilot I’ll catch the right train; sip an extra largeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: George Schaefer”
THE SELFISH CITY: A REVIEW
*every so often at DFP we spotlight a title we haven’t released. As Editor in-Chief I usually end the year spotlighting several books from different publishers featuring authors that may or may not have contributed to Dumpster Fire Press. Bhoj Kumar Dhamala’s THE SELFISH CITY was going to be one of those works, however sometimesContinue reading “THE SELFISH CITY: A REVIEW”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Nathan Graziano
Manson’s Child When I was in the tenth grade, splattered with acne, I decided that I’d had enough of Catholicism and its steady stab of guilt. The next logical step was to devote myself to Lord Satan and master black magic. So I borrowed a book from the library on Aleister Crowley, hoping to learn Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Nathan Graziano”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Giulio Magrini
FOR AUNT GLORIA AND THE UNFAMOUS Her life not measured in canvas masterpiece Celebrity media intimates Politico assurances before a poll The flags were not raised Or lowered to regard her There was no need for urgency To respond to 911 for help On Locust Street She was the wobbling walk Of drunken red hairContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Giulio Magrini”
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