Our first volume of VOICES FROM THE FIRE for 2022 has been released! Dumpster Fire Press enters 2022 with our latest eclectic volume of VOICES FROM THE FIRE assembled from the official VOICES FROM THE FIRE blog via dumpsterfirepress.com featuring: poets, writers, and artists from here, there, and everywhere in-between going to places familiar andContinue reading “THE FIRE KEEPS GOING”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Mihaela Melnic
The Other Side of Things I wish to seethe other side of things.So let me be nowthe masculine partof everything. I wish to produce semenfor mere pleasureor for a new life. I wish to be a planta rock, gay, straighta fire logblack, whitewoman, man, child, animaland be even myselffrom time to time. I wish toContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Mihaela Melnic”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy
She’s sick andI feel like I’m morphineI’m her drugNow we’re steadyA constant erodingI’m in a state of conflictShe stuckSomebody come and get her off of this proverbial stick She’s sickShe can’t stopBut I swear to GodEvery time I look she’s taking another hitShe’s sick Babe, please, let’s stopShe’s just counting the seconds on the clockBabyContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Michael Lacy”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Merritt Waldon
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Aldo Quagliotti
The comet is me The night is flooding hitting us with ink tentacles forgotten stars, so many miles afterwards falling in love with our glares why cannot summer just last forever and winter hibernate, so that spring spreads its afternoons on our romantic cheeks whilst the crickets sing along our inner chants of freedom echoContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Aldo Quagliotti”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford
“by yourself, never left alone”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Ragan
Star-Crossed I never thought I’d be in my 30’s, throwing rocks at a woman’s second-story bedroom window. First night out the pen in two years, and they were going to lock me back up for vandalism. It sucks when your girlfriend gets kicked out of her apartment and has to move back in with herContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Ragan”
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