Poem by Lo Galluccio
A little love poem My ex-lover told me love is an action. I send crushed velvet hearts through the computer screen to all of you. They will fly onto your [...]
A little love poem My ex-lover told me love is an action. I send crushed velvet hearts through the computer screen to all of you. They will fly onto your [...]
The Man in the Moon there’s a bench on the moon where my father sits reading Byron in the shade whistling Amazing Grace smiling like the photo on the wall [...]
For Sidewalk Sam So many brushstrokes perhaps a purple flourish across the stolid unforgiving asphalt. His paint dripping from yogurt cups. He brushed off the gum, the discarded cigarette, the [...]
Brown Sauce We will boil And stir As we reduce Until a thick Shining sauce Is ready And poured Liberally Across the sidewalk. We will keep The bones For stock [...]
On My Brother's First Published Book I especially loved Part Three. MILESTONES Your typical humor. PAUSE The reservoir in Avon, Connecticut? [Yes] TEARING OUT THE BLUE GIRLS Beautiful! BETE NOIRE [...]
Banner design © TJ Edson Brad You unintentionally haunt me. Questions you left hanging in the air. You used to smoke outside the movie theater and bitch [...]
Banner design © TJ Edson On What Must be Carried Out In my dream, you are leaving the house on a grey day in autumn, walking from [...]
Banner design © TJ Edson Out of the Coffin My curiosity wasn’t lured by the leash, but the marks on her neck as she knelt on all [...]
Home for the Zombie Apocalypse Today I met my father outside the cemetery where he was waiting just as I knew he'd be just as I knew where he'd been [...]
Night Walk At night I take a walk with three dead poets whose ghosts protect me and teach me The first, Edgar Allen Poe, tells me to write about my [...]
Martyr’s Day God bless this gallery, everyone here Gathered on this our final cloistered day Of numbered beat and hitched, halting measure Uttered in reverence like a prayer, Like a [...]
Fire and Opposites The excitement in the belly – sizzle – of existence in the body is burning. Put an ear to a belly hear the belly juices jizzle. There’s [...]
The Decay of a God: Natraj told me to dance With him as if the Cycle of Psyches was nothing to Be afraid of “Resistance breaks And crumbles So, we [...]
Underground Against the rain and threat of oil spills, bombs and gunshots, going underground is best There a fan cools and curtains shut out the shocked horizon where hurricanes come [...]
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It's relaxing to shuffle on once sulfurous-sored feet my back no longer aching though stiff as this hard oak door. I'm in feed-mode. I see through cataracted lenses. I rend with [...]
There's too much undead in the room. My boomstick no longer goes boom. My shirt now has a stain that just might be my brain. There's one more undead in the [...]
Roommate Of Zombie Tries To Say I, uh, just ate the plums half-rotting in the fridge which, uh you were probably never gonna eat I'm sorry-- wait what are you d- [...]
Eating Poets Chad Parenteau Similes slobber like intestines from my gut. There's no profound zombie like me. I have been eating poets. The alpha zombie doesn't even have a clue. [...]
I stand at the intersection and listen to the obsessed buzz of the pale walk-light man, a man never known to actually walk, as I scan the streets for my wife. [...]
Alpha Jesus Alpha Jesus wants us to know he can kick our asses any time he wants to. He's just letting us kill him. Alpha Jesus makes his last phone [...]