Category Archives: Poetry

This poem contains strong language and is a departure from our usual PG-13 fare. By clicking this link you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age and will not be offended by the content. >>Proceed to Poem<<  … Continue reading →

Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry, Issue 55 We are proud to present another slate of talented poets from coast to coast and around the world for your reading pleasure beginning with a bizzaro prose poem “Ghost Parade” by Shannon … Continue reading →

Freya Pickard Dark With Secrets Silver coat shining, horn gleaming Unicorn strides through grassy plains, Liquid eyes dark with secrets. He scents the air for smell of grain To avoid mankind. He, with his Silver coat shining, horn gleaming. He … Continue reading →

Richard Larson I went to the asteroid to bury you because the world had too much color in it. I took a grimy tourist shuttle, where the seatbacks played grainy footage of the moon landing and androids named Buzz and … Continue reading →

Shawna Lenore Kastin Red She was like cream, they thought, new snow and the white buds of spring. She would never follow crooked paths through the trees or bury her head in a stranger’s lap. She would never take candy … Continue reading →

Karen Bovenmyer Pseudopod After Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror The skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey tentacles with red sucking mouths protruded limply And from the abdomen a score of long … Continue reading →

Marge Simon He Promised Me the Moon I came here hoping this world would suffice, but all I met were flimsy ghosts playing with fractals and logistics, as meaningless as gossip –until him. He hired me as his model, even … Continue reading →

Shannon Rampe Ghost Parade We march in shadow parades, in masks reflecting the fullness of the universe, our eyes the light of moons, our tongues frogs and snakes. Our ancestors walk behind us–ghosts of ghosts. Our skeletons are on the … Continue reading →

Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry, Issue 55 We are proud to present another slate of talented poets from coast to coast and around the world for your reading pleasure beginning with a bizzaro prose poem “Ghost Parade” by Shannon … Continue reading →

Marri Champié Why I Stay Up Late in August We imagine each year the Perseids come to us, so we lie on the lawn and gaze upward, wrapped in a quilt, to the delight of the dogs who believe we’ve … Continue reading →