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Photos by Peter Schwartz

blue object


coercion



innuendo


little ghosts



telescope


BIOGRAPHY

After years of writing and painting, Peter Schwartz has moved to another medium: photography. In the past his work's been featured in many prestigious print and online journals including: Existere, Failbetter, Hobart, International Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and Willard & Maple. Doing interviews, collaborating with other artists, and pushing the borders of creativity, his mission is to broaden the ways the world sees art. Visit his online gallery at: www.sitrahahra.com.



Poetry by Erik Estabrook
A Relic

Babylon burned, Rome overturned

paradise lost, looking for God

tell everyone to stay right where they are

lost you found me

alone I found you

then you started seeing another hue

yellow and maroon

scents like in June

I can taste the thought of you

I gave my all

to your kind of love

time spent catering to your soul

Troy overrun, Paris defeated

and I am here without your love.




My Memory


I'm awake in spoken lines

but my true self I never find

I'm alive in place and time

but i'm barely scrapping by


I'll ask you again

if you could change us,

where would you begin?


I'm awake but falling deeper down

incomplete and singing out loud

my whole purpose under a shroud


I don't believe intaking what comes

and leaving the rest

if I gave it all

would you be thankless?


there's something my soul

can't figure out

like are we weaker or wiser now?


my body feels its over now

and I can't complain

when sins like rain

you can't help but get drenched

I ran out of forgiving myself


hope for me, wish for me,

I must leave

do anything you want with my memory.


BIOGRAPHY

Erik Estabrook - I'm a poet who is always seeking a higher level of vocab, internal knowledge, and flow in my poems.

My poems all represent who I am.  Poetry is a chance to free my mind for me.
Being a writer is a blesssing I don't take for granted.

Telescope by Peter Schwartz
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by Adam Shechter

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BIOGRAPHY:

Adam Shechter is a writer and spoken word artist who was born, raised and continues to reside in Brooklyn, New York. Adam co-authored a chapbook with Daniel Y. Harris called Paul Celan and the Messiah's Broken Levered Tongue (Cervena Barva Press, 2009). He received his BA in literature from Hunter College and has studied extensively at the Mid-Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the editor of the online poetry journal, The Blue Jew Yorker. His poetry has been published in The Minnesota Review, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Our Stories, Home Planet News and The Subway Chronicles, among other publications. Adam has performed his work in numerous venues around New York City including The Knitting Factory and The Museum of Jewish Heritage. Poetry by L.a. Nantz and Photos by Vodalok
unwanted guest II 
A Poem by L.a. Nantz  
 
 
Flash of light this room erupts 
Little shapes closer move 
Attempt to rise even sit up 
My arms held in deep cold groves 
 
Glimpse in eyes fire see 
Many fears surrounding 
Touching pulling studying me 
I can not get free 
 
Black round cold 
Some part of me they seek 
Struggle, struggle, bonds hold 
Little holes speak 
 
Slowly I awake to voices around 
I try to relate the words 
an unknown sound 
strangely it reminds me of birds 
 
Flat on my back 
Arms legs in the air 
Below my waist the attack 
Eyes on me with out care 
 
Over and over comes the scream 
No relenting further in me 
Room suspensions fade to steam 
Drowning sound I cannot see 
 
Eyes open wide 
The room silent fads 
No sound trembling side 
No sign lurking shades 
 
© 2006 L.a. Nantz




unwanted guest III
A Poem by L.a. Nantz


How long do I lay?
Staring into nothing
Trembling cold grey
Watching for something

Red glare of time
Tap of blinds wind in
Regain will mine
Over come the silence din

Each step counts
Two three four
Switch of light hand mounts
Still fear my feet upon the floor

Kitchen computer TV
Closed windows shadows more
Are they still watching me?
News cartoons war

Deep drag fills the room
Smoke released eases pain
Must to bed again soon
Snap look sound of rain

Its just rain
No clouds it's over
Repeated again in vain
Suns rising smell of clover

Steady I go
Shadows reflecting echoes
Slowly I go
Head in pillow terrors echo

Soft wind voice a scream
Gentle breeze hands on me
Black round large steam
I close my eyes and still I see…


by Vodalok
Poetry by David Kowalczyk
Eastern European Eucharist


Communion is a symphonic act,

accompanied by ecstatic joy,

peals of laughter, and sometimes,

orgasmic moans of pleasure.


The body and blood of Christ

could never be symbolically expressed

by a bland white wafer.


Golambki: ground beef, onions,

rice, and scintillating spices,

wrapped in cabbage leaves and

drowned in tomato sauce.


It thrills the palate, inducing

oneness with the universe and

transforming mutes into messengers

of the Holy Spirit.


Golambki is a not a state of mind,

but a state of grace. God is never

more satisfied with herself

than while licking the last crumb

of golambki from her plate.



Evanescent

This word

has the specific gravity

of smoke.


Fragile as a doe

in the forest.

Frail as the dreams

of a hummingbird.


Keeping this word

on a page, a task

worthy of Sisyphus.

Sly, slippery, and cunning,

nailing mercury to

a wall is easier.


So is making

a statue

out of shadows.




First Step Towards Self-Realization


I am

David Kowalczyk.


Six billion

other people

are not.


How very,

very, very,

very sad.




Frottage


This perfectly clever

word casts multiple shadows.


What other English word

denotes both an artistic technique

and a sexual aberration?


This word is best

pronounced after a volcanic belch

or a protracted ethereal sigh.


Frottage.




genius


dreaming

delicate


burning

dark restless


SCREAMING

delicious
cunning
intrepid


raw wretched perspiring
furious caged scheming



yearning twisted

soft ruthless

relentless SHINING


BIOGRAPHY

David Kowalczyk lives and writes in the woods outside Batavia, New York. He has taught English in Changwon, South Korea, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as well as at several American universities, including Arizona State. His poetry and fiction have appeared in five anthologies and over sixty magazines, including California Quarterly, St. Ann's Review, and Taj Mahal Review. He was founding editor of Gentle Strength Quarterly.
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