New! My poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch An Attack" appears in Writing In A Woman's Voice today!

"Even if I dislike or disagree, I have a hard time

thinking I can end something by quickly hitting a button,
tossing them into an online pile of trash.
Maybe I give too many multiple choice chances
to rancid meat or maybe I don't give enough.

Maybe I am too messed up and broken
and divided into conflicted fragments"

in my poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch an Attack", appearing today in Writing In A Woman's Voice (thank you very much to editor Beate Sigriddaughter)

read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_22.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR02-kFdfpa0ZUh-mHWgkzVPBakW-2ALfrUUbHB8R9VHLw2TfS7JBJcge7U

New! My poem "Passenger Seat" in Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK!

"Driving his cremains into unknown territory,

10 miles from a cheap hotel filled with unruly

remnants of life..."

I am delighted to have my poem "Passenger Seat" appearing within Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK!

The first two and a half lines appear above.
You can read the rest HERE - https://www.deadskunkmag.com/passengerseatjulietcook

You can read all the other smelly stuff in Issue 1 too HERE - https://www.deadskunkmag.com/issue1

Happy Spooky October from Thirteen Myna Birds! A New flock is here to haunt you!

Happy October from Thirteen Myna Birds! A new flock is here to haunt the walls of your brains, offering poetry and art by Jason O'Toole, Daniel Snethen, MISH Murphy, John Maurer, David P. Miller, John Grey, and Malachi Ray Adkins!

"As soon as I sleep, I forget to be positive - vociferous soul-catcher screeching - From hating the lack of love - To loving every bit of hate - still in my hometown driving past cemeteries - strip carcasses bare recycling death unto life - are you sure your mouse finger twitched on the link we told you to twitch? - Might be you don’t have prior experience being human - happiness is a hollow goal - The orange ball wasn’t. Then all at once was and there it is - I’m not allowed to betray what that means - Pumpkin squats on porch and continues to die - Do books go to heaven? Or even hell? - If a book can ascend can it also be murdered? - Who would have thought that little black book would turn out to be great black night..."

Read it HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

October Purple