Articles by John Sweet

Poem

• broken obelisk (January 22, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...waiting for answers that never came..."

• eating the bones of the poem (February 26, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...when you and i were together..."

• a gift for the diamond eaters (April 2, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...waiting for a message from the queen of open wounds..."

• poem drunk on blood (May 7, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...when the trigger is pulled..."

• invocation (June 4, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...a season of dogs in the year of starvation..."

• a merciful fist, an abundance of despair (November 12, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...leave them to laugh at the desert's edge..."

• before we found each other, before we were lost (December 10, 2018) poem unrhymed

  "...the same mistakes again and again..."

• against entropy (January 7, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...why not write poems while locked in a cage?.."

• a stone in a cloud, silence in hell (February 4, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "fall asleep with the house on fire..."

• gabriel st. (March 4, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...always just enough in the bag to get you through the week..."

• dorothea, painting a mirror (October 14, 2019) poem unrhymed

  John Sweet, b 1968, still numbered among the living. A believer in writing as catharsis.

• the days too short and neverending (November 11, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...you either have it or you die..."

• one of us forsaken (December 9, 2019) poem unrhymed

  "...who am i in this story?..."

• the uncertain assassin (January 6, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...heavy water of failure, one grey drop at a time..."

• the words (February 3, 2020) poem unrhymed

  "...do you believe this?..."

• out of our minds and out of our league (May 31, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...keeps waking up in a strange room..."

• where we stand, or where we kneel (June 28, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...do you really need reasons for your actions..."

• we can crucify tomorrow (July 26, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...clinging tight to our prejudices and petty hatreds..."

• one from the dark ages, late summer (August 23, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...he says he's got a trailer out on cemetery road..."

• together we are (September 20, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...and no one here in love..."

• [because we all know whose fault it was] (May 1, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...this is one version of the future..."

• no fear, only the absence of joy (June 12, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...think about the ocean as it begins to rain..."

• the facts (January 15, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...and we were all of us drunk..."

• says <span class="text-italic">let me know how it feels</span> (February 19, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...what everything boils down to in the end..."

• fanfare for starving dogs (March 18, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...i will always be the opposite of my father..."

• dreamt i was the prophet of this new dark age; dreamt i was awake (April 15, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...and always the sound of trains in the distance..."

• that first summer after my father died (May 20, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...i didn’t have much to my name..."

• a tracing (March 24, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...stores all bleeding neon..."

• [just keep saying <i>no</i> to me] (April 28, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...what’s left is the present..."

• [if on the run is where you’re from] (May 19, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...these better days we were taught about..."

• everything you say always sounds like it could almost be the truth (June 16, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "in between seasons beneath this luminous pewter sky..."

• last week of my father’s life: an interpretation (July 14, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...how will you pick the best one?..."