For Adam.
Burnt Hamster Minestrone! #art #poetry #zine
Michael Veloff, Art Director Casey Taylor, Ben Ditmars and many from the Words on Fire Community of Google+ are proud to present a cut and paste literary zine of pure madness…
Covfefe
i hear covfefe
when old Once-ler
cuts down the last
truffula tree
and
sea levels rise over
the grickle-grass
fields…
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© Ben Ditmars 2017
Image Source: Flickr / phunk (cc)
Less than Tragedy
Image Source: Flickr / virtual_lotus (cc)
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dense remnants of sky
are crushed into exhaustion
inside neutron stars
hot pulses, i have
felt from weakness with
my concentration
energetically
behind cold matter i am
less than tragedy.
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© Ben Ditmars 2017
Book Review: Within the Heart of Silence by James William Peercy and Jacqueline E. Smith
by James William Peercy and Jacqueline E. Smith
4/5 stars
Within the Heart of Silence is great ekphrastic poetry, blending images with words that often read like music. I enjoyed the touch of agelessness presented by Smith’s photography and Peercy’s verse. The rhyming did not always work for me, but I appreciated its structure. Definitely a great book to read outside in the woods.
Canaries
gas continues choking
casualties
like lab rats or
canaries in a coal mine…
next time, there won’t be
a next time
we remember
Aurora,
Sandyhook,
Manchester,
stray bullets in
an endless narrative.
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© Ben Ditmars 2017
Photograph by Kim Stapf
Bloodshot Tanka
passion lurks behind
eyes bloodshot with cocaine and
venti-sized coffee
a lover’s spat un-swallowed
nearly choked on sweet and lows.
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© Ben Ditmars 2017
Image Source: Flickr cc
