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Category Archives: Poetry
What Now Mombasa?
Warren Brown What Now Mombasa? She wrote a poem on the Star Bar That legend which sits in Kenya like a fat rich brawler who made his bucks in shady deals And she put Joachim in it black as time’s … Continue reading
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Worlds Colliding
Jennifer Silvey Worlds Colliding Atmosphere folds into atmosphere: the graveyard free falls into the castle. Tombstones rain down from the sky and pound the roof. Coffins tumble down marble stairs; skeletons spill out and pile together. Angelic statues fall … Continue reading
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Tell Me Yesterday
Jennifer L. Collins Tell Me Yesterday I expected the moon (to have fur, gray and luminous to be walked on and tripped upon like a carpet drowned and then surfaced into something more real than an ocean in this … Continue reading
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Choices
Toti O’Brien Choices You watch memory uncoil and rise like a spire of smoke, camphor-scented a curtain in reverse lifting upwards from the carpet, systematical, quiet then suddenly but not unexpectedly (you have witnessed this before oh so many times) … Continue reading
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Electronic Alexandria
Jack Fobean Electronic Alexandria Honestly, the anthropocene was a mockery. Traded off the forests in a pact with Mephistopheles. Exchanged for paper bands, oxygen’s a lost cause and glacial flows done rocked the oceans. Bro, lock and load. Nobody … Continue reading
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Graffiti Goddess
Noel Sloboda Graffiti Goddess Rainbow-born, she is a smile splitting open the serious mask city fathers pin to the face of sunrise. “Hoodlums” and “vandals” are just a few of the names city fathers call her priests— but the devout … Continue reading
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Entropy Conquers All
Steven Stampone Entropy Conquers All after Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 So many poets have compared true love to constant stars fixed firmly in the sky, proclaiming, like the heavens high above, an earthly passion that could never die. But … Continue reading
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Introduction to Poetry, Issue 79
Introduction to Poetry, Issue 79 Congratulations to our poets from across the states (and Mexico) appearing in the summer issue of Abyss & Apex. You will enjoy a variety of work from traditional to contemporary, including experimental forms. There are … Continue reading
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Introduction to A&A Poetry, Issue 78
Introduction to A&A Poetry, Issue 78 This quarter’s poems begin with a love of the sea [The Fisherwoman and the Queen of Gulls by Devin Miller (Seattle, Washington)] and ends with the call back to the ocean [Song of the … Continue reading
Cassiopeia
Louis Faber Cassiopeia You sit on your self-made throne and stare at the night sky as clouds gather and dissipate beneath you. Do you even recall why you were cast out, condemned to your cell so vast yet infinitely … Continue reading