Showers & Rain I’d like to see you in showers, shadows, memories, final hours that end this rain. Daisies reveal your simple secrets, yellow perverted pleasures, complicated, often unseen mysteries like COVID-19 virus. Forget your sins & dance with me. All petals at some point fall in season come to despair same as a desperateContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias
BEWITCH hearts dip into death just for a taste, a reprieve from breath, yet now they are lost. skulls flicker with obsession flirt hard with silence, to end its ache. all our burning questions never had the answer; were only distractions from the fact, that timeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen
Tinder Anachronism I imagine Herman Hesse and Anaïs Nin Both swiping right They would meet in a small Paris coffee bar Anaïs would flick the whip cream from her cup Using just the tip of her tongue as punctuation Herman would watch her carefully And finger the Nobel he wears as a cravat Clearing hisContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bhoj Kumar Dhamala
Conviction High morale, boosted status, and superb Style of living makes one feel your better – Off guise and you are in seventh heaven Just a delusion, you are out of it unless You realize who you are the surrounding Goes on after you for what you cannot Afford to offer the poor creature livingContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bhoj Kumar Dhamala”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gwil James Thomas
Lucky The Mouse. He turned up the volume on his Steel Pulse record and rolled another joint. ‘What’s that?’ I asked and pointed to a cage on the ash-trodden carpet, ‘That’s Lucky the mouse,’ he replied and grinned ‘Why’d you call him Lucky?’ I questioned, ‘Well before him we had this snake named Cuddles and Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gwil James Thomas”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Merrit Waldon
Brilliant lips apogee Twixt towering spines brittle gestures Untamable languages breed How we puke mere embers of stars Never full flame Choirs vast breeze the air we breathe Invisible flame of youth Of virility How sound the truths of our burgeoning Softness How we can never re animate the Organisms burnt out shells Fallen toContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Merrit Waldon”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: J.J Campbell
no one was ever meant to sometimes the loneliness will distort even the best memories beat you down until you understand that no one was ever meant to love you there goes another bottle of scotch soon, you’ll be looking at a bottle of pills and thinking of one of your musical heroes these areContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: J.J Campbell”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good
Unfortunately It is my least favorite word in the English language. A sentence that begins with it hasn’t a chance of ending on a happy note, with balloon bouquets and showers of confetti. Instead, the word serves as a kind of alarm bell, its only purpose to alert you that you’re about to be shotContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees
BLOOM’S KAMA SUTRA, new edition To the garden of harlots I pilgrimage again. “Hey, Bud.” The rival queens of the bed compete for attention and agency. “Pick me, pick me.” Their perfumes, their costume hyperbole, all tended for effect. Their gloss and glitter lipstick, their soft and tender feel. “I bet you came to sniffContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Duane Vorhees”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bruce Hodder
On Morphine (after my lung collapsed) I saw all four Beatles in a green stuffed pepper one lunchtime, and Jesus in my ward shower curtain. The words on the page of the book I was reading leaped and pirouetted like ants in a ballet. It was trippy, almost worth nearly dying for, but considering IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Bruce Hodder”
