Juice Box Girl (After Midnight Moments) I’m a juice box girl, squeeze me, play me like an accordion, box-shaped, but gagged edges. Breathe me inside out, I’m nude, fruity, fractured, strawberry melon, nightshade wine. Chicago, 3:00 a.m. somewhere stranded someone’s balcony memories undefined, you will find me there stretched naked, doing the Electric Slide, taking morningContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Andreas Fleps
Causeway The path you were on rolled up its tongue like a faded red carpet and swallowed itself. You opened your mouth to speak of it and your voice fell out as silence, like a baby bird from its nest. You felt hope pass away inside you, but couldn’t find the corpse. Maybe the rumorsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Andreas Fleps”
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: 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”
