• Po'try, Steven Kowal

    Posted on September 5th, 2009

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    Short Order Love

    Short Order Love

    You left a trail of herrings
    Right into his den
    The den of John Dory
    A yellow-tail among men.
    As I toddled to a window
    Outside his rumpus room
    I heard you chirp his name
    As he bit your scarlet plume.
    I want to mince you
    Mash you
    Stir you
    And scald you.
    I want to broil you
    Bruise you
    Chop you
    And churn you.
    Go away, John Dory
    You salty-minded cad.
    And [...]

  • Po'try, Steven Kowal

    Posted on September 1st, 2009

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    Blood on a Cottontail

    Blood on a Cottontail

    The bronze rabbit screams
    Hurled to and fro by the wolf
    Until the burst of a thunder clap
    Casts the wolf a’ running
    Leaving the rabbit to amble
    And bleed
    Across a narrow path
    To a black rock bed
    Where it sleeps with eyes open…

  • Po'try, Steven Kowal

    Posted on August 27th, 2009

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    Thoughts From Psych Ward 31

    Thoughts From Psych Ward 31

    Thoughts From Psych Ward 31
    by
    Steven Kowal
    There those thousand throats
    Were coughing…
    There those thousand throats
    Were thinking…
    Where did those first three throats
    Go through
    To get so scratchy
    Contagious and thrashing?
    I see the guards sway
    I see them groan
    With skin like ice
    And suds for souls.
    Mend my summer nights
    With a sugarloaf hat
    Two glasses of Mickey Finn
    And a note that reads:
    So long…
    Now the angels [...]