NaPo #4 Skip to main content Live Nude Poems Like the title says. Search Search This Blog Pages Home Paul Blackburn Submissions More… NaPo #4 By Rusty Barnes April 11, 2012 Yeah, I know. Kissing Tolstoy, a Brave Act Today the trees rustle like people in hell, every leaf a broad hair on Tolstoy's chin and lip You have a third-class ticket to the afterlife and the legend bends down for the buss. Tiptoe to reach him and remember all those lovely words sent to die in the ether when he goes or when you go. Tell Turgenev and Dos to back the fuck up. He's your man, Sonya and your grip on his short hair is tighter than comfort would normally allow but this is no ordinary marriage and after the kiss I look into your eyes and feel myself desiccate. The wind takes me east and west but never north I am air and wind and sun and rain all at once as I disappear into a wave of butterflies. Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Labels napo #4 Labels: napo #4 Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments Unknown April 26, 2012 at 2:02 AM I just stumbled upon your blog, and I am thoroughly enjoying reading the poems you've posted here. I look forward to reading even more! ReplyDelete Replies Reply Add comment Load more... Post a Comment Popular posts from this blog Amy Holman By Heather Sullivan March 15, 2019 My mother made herself the deer with a broken leg We saw a deer through the pane into someone else’s yard. The leg moved like a tube sock pinned to the hip and half filled with sticks. I did not like to see it suffer, either. She was upset —my mother —that no one helped the doe. Was it a mother, too? As if we were the first to observe the scene. We weren’t. All had been told to let her be. My mother had suffered a destruction of the self, a divorce, and no one cared. That wasn’t true. We were grown, on our own. I agree it was hard. Yet in those moments of a cold November day, we watched a doe, disabled and enduring, walk across a yard and eat a hedge. I wish she could have seen it like that. Amy Holman is the author of the collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window (Somondoco Press, 2010) and four chapbooks, including the prizewinning Wait for Me, I’m Gone (Dream Horse Press, 2005). Recent poems have been in or accepted by Blueline, Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps 4 comments Read more David Oliver Cranmer By Heather Sullivan September 09, 2022 Not Just Another Playlist Often, I sit in my swivel chair looking out the window, while jazz, country, or rock music plays. This pleasure goes on for many hours a mystic trance of sorts streaming—the glue maintaining my soul. I turn the best songs into playlists (once we called them mix tapes) puzzling over the perfect order. Does Satchmo’s “What a Wonderful World” kick off my latest list or make it the big soulful closer? And does “Mack the Knife” go higher in the set than “Summertime?” That’s an Ella Fitzgerald duet! “Foolishness? No, it’s not” whether you are climbing a tree to count all the leaves or tapping to beats. These are the joys that bring inner peace and balance (to a cold universe) lifting spirits skyward. David Oliver Cranmer ’s poems, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in publications such as Punk Noir Magazine , The Five-Two: Crime Poetry Weekly , Needle: A Magazine of Noir , LitReactor , Macmillan’s Criminal Element , and Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Post a Comment Read more Maureen O'Leary By Heather Sullivan January 14, 2022 Grief (for J’uan) Maybe we turn into clouds of reefer Particulates coating the lungs of the people thinking about us First and secondhand smoke Clinging to the frizzing gray locs of the women mourning us Or maybe we are in the splashes of Hennessey Swirling in the bottoms of Styrofoam cups A bad burn in the throats of our brothers Something to remember us by On the way back up. Maybe we are still here. In the way the candles keep going out In the way they call out to God. If they only looked up they could see our eyes Shining through the branches and glittering through the haze Below the stars. Maureen O'Leary lives in Sacramento, California. Her work appears in Coffin Bell Journal, Bandit Fiction, The Horror Zine, Ariadne Magazine, and Sycamore Review. She is a graduate of Ashland MFA. 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