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Various & Sundry Poems & Thoughts For All Tastes & Sizes
Commerce killed art. We are owned. We are corporate property. We are price points. We are consumer units. We are commodities. We are profitable debt. We are manipulated. We are not human beings. Commerce killed art. Art is necessary for … Continue reading
Clementine Is Now Unbound
A friend’s delicious, superb, piquant journal of brilliant poetry. Please check it out, support it, and enjoy. /// The December issue of Clementine Poetry Journal is now live. Big thanks and congratulations to our December poets! The poems are in … Continue reading
Posted in Art I Like, Poetry
Tagged Clementine, poetry, Pushcart
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What Editors Do, A Rebuttal
It strikes me that editors asking for changes is simply another way of stripping our voices from the work. Whatcha think? Yes, a good editor can focus a work but I don’t see that happening more than once in every … Continue reading
Posted in Sample Essays
Tagged editing, editors, poet, poetry, precision, responsibility, voice, Writing
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The Madness of Empty Spaces by David E. Cowen, a review
The Madness of Empty Spaces: The Dark Poetry of David E. Cowen Weasel Press, 2014, 61p Introduction by Danel Olson ISBN: 978-069-233-2962 A Review by Gene Stewart A poetry collection featuring cover art, front and back, by the poet, published … Continue reading
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Tagged dark, poetry, review, Stoker Award
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Social Media Res
Uriel’s Machine lies sprawled everywhere if we but look. High culture meant something else in the past. Not electronics or powered technology; It meant integrating humanity with the natural world In which our lives are immersed, of which we are … Continue reading
Posted in Gene's Art, Poetry, Stewartoons
Tagged cosmic rhythms, cosmos, culture, electronics, humanity, ignorant, lives, nature, poem, poetry, significant, sky cycles, Social Media Res, world
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Some Recent Culls From the Flow
A Warm Touch In Cold Woods Ink is text juice Wrung from blood Tracks untrue Lure to traps Spring is pounce Fall is over Winter loses Summer calls Hidden in leaves Clinging to branches Oral sex in a Swaying tree’s … Continue reading
Folly’s Adieu
Writing life into words afflicts some of us. It’s maddening when our best is too good for print. Like being over-qualified, I suppose. We are men of letters in an unlettered dark time. There is a basic distinction to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged adieu, carve stone, distinction, etymology, folly, love, pinnned, poetry, soap bubbles, words
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Rusting Lock
I am not, cannot be Shiny child remembered, Child smarter, faster, sharper. I am what is left. Not dregs, not residue; More uneroded stone, Exposed core, A scrimshaw ego. Child is gone but lingers. I am lingering but gone. /// … Continue reading
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Tagged child, Ficta Mystica, key, poem, poetry, rusted lock, scrimshaw ego
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A Parting Apart
After they made love As he lay sleeping She shaved her pubic hair Sewed it unwashed Into a corner of the lace handkerchief She gave him in the morning When he left for war. All that returned to her Was … Continue reading
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Tagged conneciton, DNA, heartache, lace handkerchief, love, pain, poem, poetry, pubic hair, separation, truth, unfulfilled, war
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