voices from the fire#2 – Dumpster Fire Press

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Dillinger

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo

The Creepy Environmentalist I was walking through the dark forest when I saw something creepy: a humanoid tree had relations with the environmentalist Little Red Riding Hood and while they exchanged caresses, the seeded sap fell on the girl’s breasts, leading her to become a carnivorous plant that absorbed the moans of her lycanthropic victimsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Reece Beckett

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Emalisa Rose

The pipedream of permanence These rocks wear our names in a pipedream of permanence. Yet somewhere we’ve buried our cabernet moon, our clinking of glasses, rhyme over reason. The sun steals our shadow. I sent you two poems, penned in the frenzy of midnight and madness; our signatures linked in the marquise’s italics. Turnaround/turnaround. TheContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Emalisa Rose”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Shane Allison

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Laszlo Aranyi

Lady Babalon

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Dillinger

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber

Coffee We met for coffee. I had No intention of hitting on her. I was married and her husband was doing time for some kind of telemarket- ing fraud. Besides, she has… rumor has it… f—ed most of the boys in the Buddha Garden poetry reading group. She hosted this group and was now droning Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Shane Allison

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter

How I knew you were dead – PT2 Not that it matters anymore,did it ever really matter at all?What they, you, thought of me, A matter of belief.It will always be. I’ve know been told ‘she was trying to be kind,you know Stephen, ‘with your state of mind’Oh right, so she’s dying, duly dies, without good luck,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”