Poem by Jake St. John
Slow Drag I sit in eternity on this river an early spring sun struggles through clouds ferry boats sail towards open sea with my thoughts of yesterday in tow and [...]
Slow Drag I sit in eternity on this river an early spring sun struggles through clouds ferry boats sail towards open sea with my thoughts of yesterday in tow and [...]
The Distance For Joe Gouveia When you’re born they turn you loose into the ring no experience just a punchers chance and a good chin swinging and jabbing and always [...]
Fallout from the War on Women I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly this metal thing came into my room poked [...]
the mad ones oh give me the mad any day over the sane give me the drunks the wanderers the reckless recluses the homeless vagabonds the thieves of the night [...]
Abrupt Banjo Stubs Its Toe On A Stack of Love Letters all the letters in your name like wires dangling from a library book. zapzap like lint when my tongue [...]
L.A. So of course I just write Another poem Why? Because we like you See you soon I live in a garbage can I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I love [...]
Scent in the Air A response to the crisis in the Ukraine The scent is rising, old world stench Found in books, nestled in my nostrils, Not the dusky smell [...]
Modern Day Flossie 1. Danse Russe “If when (his) wife is (not) sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping.” Flossie follows her husband to his north room watches him [...]
all life is suffering i don’t know where calvin found her because he was always so upstanding and his mother tried her hardest to keep him locked up on friday [...]
Seatbelts and Life Rafts Airlines drop me to my day. The jet engines hum a new weariness into the music of morning. In the terminal, I feel sanctified, or at [...]
If If the leaves stop flowing in the fall, and the only color sprawled across the earth is absence, the light that does not cover the sundry objects of mourning, or [...]
Bridges I. Why did you take pieces? Why did you take only should and breath leave me alone gasping in this salty air? Why won’t you come back? You could [...]
Canticle for Charlotte Drink our planet, knowing the sovereignty of salt water. Let the raindrops of night become the raindrops of day, until winter emerges from the heavens. The soul [...]
Recalling A Vigorous Verse-Maker You had declined for I could not measure the time, felt like thousands of thousands eclipses of the sun, your flow of words become few words [...]
Tourist My Bostonian legs swoop and stumble on High Street to the harbor of hearts I read about in a travel book. A throng of waterfront locals are so ready [...]
The Edward Hopper House It was a bitingly cold winter, even by the frigid standards of New England. Stephen James, a severely depressed, financially destitute bisexual painter, lived in Truro, [...]
Why do I sit with the corpse in the Garden of Nowhere Why do I sit with the corpse in the Garden of Nowhere? Why am I here? Will the [...]
Fire on the Ground “Alright. My name is Jeffers, and I’m the type two burn boss trainee. Today is Monday, June 10, and we’re here to put some fire on [...]
Orphans Being pressed, I’ll only give an outline, smooth a silhouette in the dust to say This is what happened where love came to forget what it can’t remember and [...]
Age 5 Choking is what woke my mother from sleep. blue in the face I gagged breathless. she shook my small body. no good. no good at all. a hand [...]
Yahoo! Answers My hands don’t always shake when I speak it goes. Just another finky, disembodied voice trapped inside a greeting card. I guess. The way I see it there [...]
(no) fur “Crack” behind tree Please give me Ground to run Paw wet, wounded Exhausted Stalker closes in Veer downhill Now wounded Gain speed Through the ravine Close to rivers [...]
Survivor Guilt Those birds entice the sky! Their chitter-chatter tweets birth the day like mountains birth from the ocean floor. A hillside village disappears in an Afghan landslide. Pleasure satiated [...]
Richard Running Richard running Through sideway streets Beautifully forgettable (I could have been here Once), all cobbled as Time slips nautically Beginning passages tense As arteries. Richard running On pavements [...]
Working by Floodlight Early sunset, and now we set about to dig a trench working by floodlight in descending chill. Amazing how quietly we work considering the grate of spades [...]