Poetry
Spotlight on…
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"Angst of Freud"
by Pulkita Anand
“ID, Ego, and superego, it’s enough, Mr Freud.”
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"Intrusive"
by Mae Fraser
“behind your eyelids, / unripe thoughts are / praying for release.”
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"Wilderness Weary"
by Daniel Edward Moore
“Earth is the biggest Queen / I know, all stubble & lipstick, / ripped nylons / and sorrow.”
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"The Laundry in Kilmanaugh"
by Christopher Dungey
“…tautly unfurls on clotheslines / rigged by wives of migrant workers— / blue denim shirts their men wear / while chopping weeds out of sugar beet / rows…”
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"Stealing Jones Beach"
by Jack Mackey
“Casual but carefully done up in her A-line / and her clip-on earrings––thin mother-of-pearl / discs outlined in rhinestones––she reaches across / the painted steel dashboard & adjusts the plastic / Madonna with quiet superstition.
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"Soulmates"
by Brandon Shane
“Even as he laughs / and I have achieved this / purported happiness, / I keep track of the door / how it opens and locks…”
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"Black Dog"
by David Estringel
“The black dog lounges ‘neath the apple tree…Looks right past me—disinterested…turning a blind eye / and fickle attentions / ‘til / the last apple falls.”
Special Poetry Feature…
Selections from “The Shadow Man Poems”* (inspired by the art and life of NYC street artist Richard Hambleton)
by David Estringel
“See how they duck / see how they / cover / to the coolsexy superfly acid jazz groove— / out of sight, man / out of mind / out of time— / b’yond eyelines of the madding hungry hunter pride”
*The full “Shadow Man Poems” collection is currently available for view at The Daily Drunk.
Five Poems
by Brandon Shane
“Even as he laughs / and I have achieved this / purported happiness, / I keep track of the door / how it opens and locks…”
Six Poems
by Kristen Dunn
“If you watch Icarus / with close attention, / his chest will open up for you, / revealing his / last secret, / a bleeding red dot.”
Four Poems
by Kaitlyn Owens
“A little miscarriage occurs / when you pick a centipede / off of your pantyhose.”
Two Poems
by David Estringel
“The black dog lounges ‘neath the apple tree…Looks right past me—disinterested…turning a blind eye / and fickle attentions / ‘til / the last apple falls.”
Two Poems
by Travis Stephens
“This office / this waiting room / with four barrel chairs / three end tables / five potted plants / and a TV, switched off.”
Three Poems
by Mae Fraser
“behind your eyelids, / unripe thoughts are / praying for release.”
Five Poems
by Maria Fischer
“Our loyal lovers, / …They are not “utterly unerasable.” / They are traceable / In the water bill paid, The bed made…”
Cueva de las Manos
by John Kruschke
“A mouse on the wall tells time with two splayed hands…/ to begin its / inobtrusive countdown of the hours / prankster Mickey laughingly devours.”
Five Poems
by Susan Shea
“I collect thorns / watch them float / in a jar of living water…”
Five Poems
by Lauren Arienzale
“the lumpy blue couch and the apple / orchard and the sunset behind the / mountains. the quiet and the gentle / and the slow, nothing more.”
Three Poems
by Ray Carey
“Each alteration was written down as soon as it was done. / And I’d count the butts and tell her she was smoking too much.”
Featured Poetry…
“to: Black women who have never known a life free from the burden of defending your skin and having to reclaim your femininity”
by Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey
“I refuse for Black women to be the reason another qualifier has to be added behind ‘feminism.”