Poem – EASE (By John Zedolik)

EASE – By John Zedolik   Snow on the Moore. But the Reclining Figure, 1957, doesn’t care. After all it is only a mantle   upon bronze, lounging there for halfway to a century and more, and has certainly experienced worse   in those years of wavering weather and witnesses such as me who envy the unconcern that brings fortitude […]

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Poem – Immortality (By David Russell)

Immortality You carried your vengeance beyond decease – Slowed down the pyre’s cleansing, Slowed down the soil’s, the water’s warmth, Left total body change open to the senses – Pursued your cause beyond its effects, Stepped out beyond all examples, Further than all reflections, Forestalled all worth – All kindred, all common links –   Seeking to frame a cleansing, […]

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Poem – Noblesse Oblige (By Frank De Canio)

Noblesse Oblige – By Frank De Canio It isn’t strange that some sweet girl who’s charmed a male combatant in the sexes’ war should, seeing that her former foe’s disarmed by awe, forgo hostilities she swore. For, after all, a man thus smitten cedes his prowess to exigencies of love. His heart is focused on romantic deeds and gallantry instead […]

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Poem – Bodies Exhibit (By Fern G. Z. Carr)

Bodies Exhibit – By Fern G. Z. Carr   Black walls, track lighting, spectators milling about silently, reverently   surrounded by vascular systems preserved in fluid, skeletons, diseased organs, foetuses in jars.   Hollowed out corpses in life-like poses play soccer, hold hands, boast their musculature – a post-mortem artistic rendition of red meat.   In a display case, a […]

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