“Feathers Awakening the Distance” © Bill Wolak

 

The agony of life
   (poetic graffiti)

It is all a potted ambiguity,
a consequential writ,
on a theoretical trellis.
About as significant as
Tarzan’s loin cloth.
Holy prosody, I hear them shout.
They cling to clouds,
scheming damage,
in their vaporous intransigence.
We’ll always have Paris, my friend.

 

James Aitchison is an Australian author and poet of nothing much in particular. He loves dada, the absurd, and excellent Italian cuisine.

Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled What Love Calms Only With Nakedness with Expeditions International Publishing House. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2025 Dirty Show in Detroit, Amorous Art 2025 in Indianapolis, the 2025 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).