Our interregnum of compliant sensitivity
this puff pastry surrounded by jackals
a world of idea sculpture d'appartement
unconnected parsecs without a chatelaine
being led in a slow slog of a dance along
a corniche by a bunch of whooping apaches
We are engaged in a brutal kulturkampf
no prisoners taken no hopeful piece rose
most participants content with piccola morte
others satisfied with dialolgue des sourds
some compagnon de voyage shepherding
a detritus engaged in fruitless bouts rimes
A bag of fredaine displayed in shop windows
mimes all the world's homme serieux
now without salus populi surprema est lex
one attentat aux moeurs follows another
chacun a son gout is our esprit d'escalier
a hubris awaiting aut Caesar aut nihil
Paul Strohm is a freelance journalist working in Houston, Texas. He worked for the Austin Sun Newspaper during his college days. He was fired by the Angleton Times Newspaper for his humorous piece which recommended changing the national pastime from baseball to nose picking while driving. Writing has its drawbacks. His most recent poem 'Dimple Dell Davis' appears in HuKmag.com.
Bill Neumire
Water Cycle #1: To Whom
Shall I Return
Water Cycle #3: I Thought
There Would Be More
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Or To Release Death
Magus Magnus
Payload Dump
(3 excerpts
from drone: poetic monologue
for monotone)
Aimee A. Norton
Apache Code Errors
No Sin Like Arson
Katherine Swett
Translations of an
Algorithmic Love Poem
Amy Schreibman Walter
Online Dating Inbox
Paul Strohm
Our Interregnum
KJ Hannah Greenberg
The Sanctity of Lists
Assistance with Quickly
Becoming Unbearable
Susan L. Lin
When You Are Sleeping
Ana Maria Caballero
Another Airport Poem
Ann Skiöld
Emily Dickinson Did Not
Drive A Car
Jeremy Dixon
In Retail (xxii)
Pete Coco
Especes Perdue
Jessica Joy Reveles
Surviving the Desert