November Submissions!!
Here are the poems that were selected at our last meeting. Check them out and add comments!!!
“Insatiable”
Insidious whispers
Spread through the masses,
Like a brush fire.
Paper in a chemical explosion.
Choke and hack at thick smoke.
Clear of Bedlam by far,
Yet they observe with
An unwavering eye,
A horse in the New World.
Poking and prodding
With electric nodes.
Their strings and rods extend
From limbs
Greedy, ravenous, slobbering palms
Fingertips buzzing mouths agape.
Hungry hands.
Satiated with control.
Jake Harrelson
“The Rim”
Out at the rim of perception,
That slight deviant slot between light and day,
Is the lost and found wildflower-merry soul,
All barefoot and bathed,
Restless in the twilight of phantasma:
Pipe dreams tunneled, burrowed,
Into rich, golden oblivion limbo.
Alex Joins
“Guest Bathroom”
cheap checkered tiles
separate the abstraction
of your presence from
the coffee-colored
formality that carpets the
rest of the house
your welcome is temporary,
conveniently set beneath the
cabinet, pressed between
towels and fresh soap,
unscented and unused
Sarah Rodriguez
“on your decision to return to california”
confined the passenger side,
surrounded by
nostalgic candy bar wrappers and
braided cassette tapes.
traffic yawns heavily,
blinking to the cadence of
the static radio preacher.
your eyes are deserted, incomplete,
focused on strangling the steering wheel.
unnoticed, i dissolve
into the airless leather seat.
the light changes,
but i don’t move.
Sarah Rodriguez
“Kept”
we enlisted stares like new species
eyes frozen in novel registration on our glass
heads cocked
like mute guns
for attack we’d been braced since creation;
we were our own hip-swaggering, high-browed, note-jotting, puce-uniformed keepers
carefully calculating
rejecting or ordaining
each shimmer of hesitant heart clench
Sam Hoskins
Congratulations to all those whose poems were selected.
Serendipity will meet again soon so keep writing!!!
