FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: CITY LIVING Send up to three poems on the subject of or just using either the words city and/or living totaling up to 150 lines in length in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on February 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: City Living will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Maria A Arana

The Mount


whitecaps

touch salt left behind

 

a monstrosity

revealing damage that once was

 

fumes engulf the tips of the city

surrounded by upward needles

 

they bleed sugar

sweet as morning dew

 

 


Inevitable


It leaves behind

a trail of murals

which speak in foreign tongues

 

wreaking havoc on our ancestor

in fields of mist

where the trajectory broken

 

disappears in the wake of

a sudden breakpoint

that hinders lepers’ lame

 

chiding in front of coliseums

and breaking bread with the enemy

then Death unmasks

 

and devours the living

 

 


Can of Worms

 

Who the @#* cares about the night

we snuck out and stepped on bile

only to be chased by dogs?

Or that I touched his bearded chest

and let him in my wayward life again

just to shriek of joy?

 

And when the train left us stranded

in the middle of nowhere city

just to find time to cry for half-breeds

fronting their last public display

that sliced our fear in half

only to escape through cracks in the wall?

 

Or that tomorrow is another tedious journey

into my dreaded existence

that steers from indiscretion?

 

And if having toes that don’t match

or fit any shoes

just to limp and play in the grass

after the ring fell down the sink

only to clog it and have it burst

just so he gets a chance to test

his newfound knowledge of dismantling things?

 

Who the @#* cares that this is too long?

It’s just another meltdown of mind crap

put together to stop the senses.

 

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