Poem – FLIPPING OUT (By Ray Gallucci)

  FLIPPING OUT   Every seven-fifty grand Earth performs a sleight of hand When magnetic north and south Make a total turnabout.   Sun does same each dozen years Minus one, when sunspots clear. Relatively quick event Due to plasma turbulent.   Earth contains no plasma hot, Just a core of molten rock. But this has the same effect, Quite […]

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Poem – Ritual Roots (By David Russell)

Ritual Roots Trains: Stringing, ringing, lifting, Breathing meringues, with pores distended at the termini   Contraction is needed for piercing of bars And holing of tickets.   The breaking of one deadlock only Institutes another, more firm, In the hand and in the basket.   More futile by far than any old bird’s weak flight Through a Church, a hall […]

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Poem – LA BÊTE DE GÉVAUDAN: 1764-1767 (THE BEAST OF GEVAUDAN) (By Ray Gallucci)

LA BÊTE DE GÉVAUDAN: 1764-1767 (THE BEAST OF GEVAUDAN) (Based partly on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gevaudan and translations from http://www.dinosoria.com/bete_gevaudan.htm and http://facteurx.chez.com/betegevaudan.htm)     What devastated Central France three centuries ago? “A Wolfman Beast” said those who glanced and dodged this deadly foe.   “La Bête de Gévaudan” – from Hell some thought this demon came. Yet only kids and women killed, no […]

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Poem – The Horse’s Tale (By Ray Gallucci)

THE HORSE’S TALE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse)   The story of the Trojan Horse Owes little to Homeric source. Its mention in the Odyssey’s About as brief as brief can be.   It took a Roman to explain (Descendence from the Trojans claim) The tale of Grecian subterfuge, Epitome of classic ruse.   For Virgil in Aeneid’sverse Records events of equine curse, Although […]

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Poem – Tequila (By Michael Lee Johnson)

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Tequila (V5) By Michael Lee Johnson   Single life is Tequila with a slice of lime, Shots offered my traveling strangers. Play them all deal them jacks, some diamonds then spades, hold back aces play hardball, mock the jokers. Paraplegic aging tumblers toss rocks, Their dice go for the one-night stand. Poltergeist fluid define another frame. Female dancers in the […]

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