Immediate Undertaking

a promise and a secret

written in stone

 

clutched like a dying heart

 

a life untethered

in the loveless ether

 

neither held

nor hoped for

 

too painful to remember

too impossible to forget

 

an anomaly of dark matter

gone supernova

 

between the rock of truth

and the hard place of hurt

 

nerves exposed in stars’ ignition

transmissions muted

 

space at a standstill

 

for it is

both now…

 

and never again.

 

by Edward Canavan

 

Edward L. Canavan (January 19, 1971 – ) is an American poet whose work has been published in such underground and revolutionary journals as Bleeding Hearts, Vice and Verse, Eagle’s Flight, and Oxford Comma. He currently resides in a small room by the freeway in North Hollywood, Ca.

Jeffrey Park

Experiment in Weightlessness

 

Upside down fishbowl

occupant

right side up

tablecloths like spiraling

butterflies

brown lace-up shoe

a woman’s

random receipts brochures

sticky notes

last year’s desk calendar

curling uncurling

a glowing suspended instant

strangers on the ledge

faces averted

unwilling to witness

the tragedy of

scorched birds in flight.

 

 

The Power

 

I plant thoughts in your head,

walk a mile in your shoes

and leave you to wonder

where all that sand came from.

 

You once accused me of being

all talk and no action,

but you would tremble with fear

if you could see me now.

 

Magic dances on my fingertips,

sparks crackle in my hair.

 

I cook my meals these days

without ever going near the stove.

I just sear chunks of flesh

with the heat of my regard.

 

 

By Jeffrey Park

Jeffrey Park’s poetry has appeared most recently in Star*Line, phantom kangaroo, Mad Swirl, and Danse Macabre. A native of Baltimore, Jeffrey currently lives in Goettingen, Germany, where he is lecturer for Scientific English at the Georg-August-Univeritaet. Links to all of his published work can be found at www.scribbles-and-dribbles.com.

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