fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about what makes a good poem and the poetry rules that were made to be broken.
Lightning in a Bottle
“Tom,” the old matriarch bellowed, addressing the boy clad in tattered clothes sitting in the chair in front of her. The candlelight cast shadows upon the creases of her face as if they were writhing black rivers. “Thomas, can you hear me?” The boy did not answer.
By C. H. Parker3 years ago in Poets
The Motion of Atoms
“And so the english word Plague was at some point derived from the Latin plāga which had several meanings: stroke or wound in classical times, or in post-classical times, affliction, illness, or plague – particularly as a sort of divine punishment …” I paused for a moment to look at some gulls sailing overhead toward the williamsburg bridge, adjusted my scarf, then continued reading aloud.
By A.T. Fickel3 years ago in Poets
The Artist's Spirit
He threw me to the ground, so devastatingly sure in this action that he spared not even a moments glance to watch me crater against the bar. He left me lying there in that shadowed, stained, and pungent nether region where so many forgotten things meet their end. And honestly, I didn’t entirely blame him. I knew why he had done it, but still, naivety had woven the fanciful hope that in all we had shared he might have come to love me not for what he wished me to be, but for what I was. Now it seemed clear, as tepid pools of clumsily-spilt beer slowly soaked and wrinkled my body, that I had been a fool.
By Topo Mokokwane3 years ago in Poets