Special FeaturerbdDouglas Bertram, poetry, special feature

Douglas Bertram: Dust Gathers to Dusts

Special FeaturerbdDouglas Bertram, poetry, special feature
Douglas Bertram: Dust Gathers to Dusts
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Irelands

 

[...] shelter

- Amhrán  bhFian

                                                           

 

i.

dust-process

martin.

                                                           

shade silenced

tongue

 

wrung wrong

thru’

 

boyhood

 

 

ii.

tight

face crowing

                                                           

wordless

gutted

 

messages

denuded you

 

 

iii.

dust gathers

to dusts.

 

 

iv.

if blair, new:

your eyes

 

judas goat

 

blanked in

camera-blear

           

a smile

- translated -

held-to.

glare

 

 v.

chits

 

 

vi.

as cold as that

call to say

 

not ‘we did’

but ‘i do’

Douglas Bertram lives, works, and writes in London. There’s more coming. Mainly to do with tea, dead birds, and myth.

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Tierra Ouellette: Your Face After You Came

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Tierra Ouellette: Your Face After You Came
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Juliet Cook: Rebirth the Parts I Hated
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Ashley Bethard: Make You Forget

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Ashley Bethard: Make You Forget
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Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Productions, and is the author of three novellas, three short-story collections, two books of humorous non-fiction (Sad Laughter is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), and Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Funhouse, Heavy Feather Review, Talking Book, and Queen Mob’s Tea House, among other places. He lives in Florida, and tweets sad and clever things at both @brianalanellis and @HouseofVlad.

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Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester