enchanted human | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Michael Dickel
Michael Dickel’s poem, ”epistemological metaphysics of rhetorical hallucinations,” explores a mind.
Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Operator by day | Michael Dickel
A flight of fancy—escape through language, desire, politics—an end game—a poem by Michael Dickel.
Dreams and Memories | Mike Stone | Sunday Brunch Tuesday
Three poems by Mike Stone about dreams and memories, some good, some not, on Meta/Phor(e)/Play
We chose a day | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Paul Brookes
Four poems, comprising some family history narrative | Paul Brookes | Meta/Phor(e)/Play
we dream we are young | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | gary lundy
These 3 poems by gary lundy dance to music & drink coffee—reading your meaning, meaning your reading.
A tear drop falls | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Mike Stone
Three poems & a Haiku sequence, written winter to spring—glimpses of the world through Mike Stone’s eyes.
memories that no longer exist | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Bill Yarrow
Yarrow’s poems—three pas de deux partnering memory & family in delicate ballet | Meta/ Phor(e) / Play
Modernism likes its own “post” | Coffee Bruise Thursday
Adeena Karasick takes us on a satiric tour through the shards and fragments of literary and post-consumerist culture.
Consumer demographic bands | 3 poems | Michael Dickel
Three poems from Michael Dickel, commentaries on himself and our times on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play. Now open for submissions.
speak poetry | poem | Michael Dickel
The voices speak poetry even as so much else happens, including the poet going out | Michael Dickel | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
unrepentant insolence | Hassan Melehy
Hassan Melehy’s poems, Recriminations & Doctrines of Honesty, provide “unrepentant insolence”—perhaps of the Beats, perhaps of our own.
imaginary maps | Poems | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Evocative imagery woven into a sense of displacement, nostalgia, & longing | imaginary maps | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt | Meta/Phor(e)/Play
Dust to Dust | Poem | Michael Dickel
Michael Dickel’s poem, Dust to Dust — the passing of time and the absurdity of meaning fill out the form of this poem on Meta / Phor(e) / Play.
that other night when
Surrealist dreamscape through a wormhole—a poem by Michael Dickel.
Jerusalem’s Garden — Hybrid
A hybrid essay-fiction flash set in a mystical garden that doesn’t exist in Jerusalem Recalled but possibly in Jerusalem Imagined.
Sunday brunch Tuesday | Kinga Fabó
Three poems by Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, translated into English and in Hungarian.
coffee brews Wednesday
As he wrote Musée des Beaux Arts
Auden danced with Isherwood. He asked about a young man
who had caught their attention long ago in Berlin.
Sunday brunch Tuesday
Deconstruction
I’ll take your hyper-inflated
phallus, ego-distended balloon,
id-fueled hot-air engine…
Meta/ Phor(e) /Play 