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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter

Victoria Coach Station-Isle of Wight. An inexplicable indoor wind whips litter around my feet and bags.A newly docked Coach, it’s hot tyre smell reminds me of the roads back home in Summertime.Though we are deep in November, nearly December.Coaches smell of Summer, years of my childhood on a tourist island where Coaches abound, andContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy

Jesus Christ there’s no use for this Judas there’s no choice but to do it Predestined to see Mother Earth from fleshy knees tell us there’s no fucking need to do this watch me pray in the street While the false Christians loot us Let’s go after the misguided Open fire on the looters IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Tiberius Galloway

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman

I Am an Oracle In 2025 the United States as we know it will cease to exist. In 2042 I will die, alone and impoverished, in a shoddy facility set up, quickly and haphazardly, to house the elderly and terminally ill. Between those two events, my wife will die of a medical emergency. In 2070,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Shane Allison

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ari Whipple

Moonlight Sonata Make do with spirit and synapses that go and go and go and go Lift off outer space The stars are your only friends Jack Kerouac was a dick and his writing was the sign of pathetic, monkey typing Genius It pains me to say that he changes the times but were theContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ari Whipple”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson

Waltz Footprints in Snow Care to dance a new waltz renew, or drift back to those old vintage footprints− waltz with me footprints in snow fog covering over old snow. Rose Petals in a Dark Room I’m but a poet of this ministry, rose petals in a dark room fall. Everyone’s life is a conflict.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lee Johnson”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Warren

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cord Moreski

Notice The landlord is paying a visit this evening while I see him getting back into his shiny Ferrari playing with the dashboard outside my living room window I got this notice between my fingers but don’t even have to open it to realize what this is again because if I listen carefully the otherContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cord Moreski”

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”