Afterlives of Dreams by Sharon E. Svendsen

Afterlives of Dreams by Sharon E. Svendsen

Art: Untitled from series Surrealutions Afterlives of Dreams You wake and slowly pull away from the gauze-like silken cocoon of your dreams. You yawn, stretch, arise, but the dreams live on without you— bubbles of anti-matter in the plasma of outer dream space. You...
For Schopenhauer by Russ Allison Loar

For Schopenhauer by Russ Allison Loar

  For Schopenhauer Show me your sun-drenched sprigs of winter, The juniper bug as he howls, The rise and fall of oatmeal In the misty dawn of a burgeoning wahoo! Show me these things, My sweet, bare-faced darling, And I shall inherit your property With the gay...
from Nueces Motel by Christian Garduno

<1. Swear> from Nueces Motel by Christian Garduno

  <1. Swear> Wishes in your eyelashes & you know it’s over, She brushes your hair out of her dreams, almost a cadence snore & wheeze, like an old neighbor’s seashell wind-chime, Wafting over a sky full of hope Not all poetry fits inside a wine...
landscape with needles by Kathleen Hellen

landscape with needles by Kathleen Hellen

landscape with needles after Bruegel between the Methodists and AME, the park and racetrack with its red eye turned to gamble between the Prius’ and Kias between ADT alarming padlocks, the deck with conversation seating, doggie dogs on leashes and muted pit bulls, the...