The Figure That Is None

Posted on April 6, 2018May 29, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, blog, blogging, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, Poem, Poetry, Readings, relationship, verse, writing11 Comments

Never trust human speech when spoken,
Only when written, and its creator has become nothing but
Strings of sigils printed in lifeless-black:
Lines, dots, angles, curves, and crosses.

Photo by Brodie Vissers from Burst

Inquietação

Posted on March 30, 2018May 29, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, bblogger, blog, blogging, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, Personal History, Poem, Poetry, psychedelic, Readings, relationship, verse, writing7 Comments

Inquietação – The restlessness of young love.

The sweet-savory of your breath
Encrusts in the juices soaking my beard’s coffee coarse strands.

Each bite elicits a sensation hot enough to warm two bodies,
But once you taste the blood of my fruit, you bite hard and deep.

Photo by Brody Vissers

Innocuous Noctuary

Posted on March 23, 2018May 29, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, blog, blogging, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, Poem, Poetry, Readings, relationship, verse, writing11 Comments

Truss the give of the bedsprings
With those tortured instruments of berth—
Striated, cracked mud— given to build a hearth out of the same
Earth you were made from.

Photo by Scott Murdoch from Burst

Animal Mother

Posted on March 9, 2018May 29, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, bblogger, blog, blogging, dogs, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, pets, Poem, Poetry, Readings, relationship, verse, writing11 Comments

You are there and not there, around when I need you most—
More than you’ve needed me— slumbering sweet on my rug,
Next to my feet, and under my heart.

Image Credit

Dog Paws [Photograph]. Dan Gold. Accessed on 03/09/2018

Largo

Posted on March 2, 2018May 29, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, bblogger, blog, blogging, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, Poem, Poetry, Readings, relationship, verse, writing4 Comments

It pains me denying you of unpredictable whims,
childlike cravings for unrepeated joys; gouging a rib
From my side to murder my younger brother,
Exposing what’s left of a body you’ve claimed as your own,

Photo Credit

Wu, Samuel. Apple Polisher. Los Angeles, 1947.

Faded

Posted on February 15, 2018March 5, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Culture, Diversity, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, bblogger, blog, blogging, c'est LA vie, Derailment, feature, life, Los Angeles, past, Poem, Poetry, Readings, relationship, verse, writing7 Comments

Faded will be published in the upcoming issue of:

Meat for Tea: The Valley Review – Volume 12, Issue 5: Hemp

You can purchase a printed or PDF copy by clicking on the following link:

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A Spirit That Seizes

Posted on February 8, 2018May 16, 2018 Posted in Authors, Blogger, Commentary, Environment, Los Angeles, Poem, Poetry, Poets, UncategorizedTagged amwriting, bblogger, blog, blogging, feature, life, Los Angeles, love, past, Poem, Poetry, Readings, verse, writing2 Comments

A Spirit That Seizes will be featured in

Scarlet Leaf Review

in the month of June 2018.

Artwork

Henry, Matthew. Water Surface Close Up. Toronto, Ontario. Date Accessed 02/08/2018.

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