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December 02, 2024

Articles by John Sweet



[Poem]

Poem

broken obelisk (2018-01-22) poem unrhymed

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

eating the bones of the poem (2018-02-26) poem unrhymed

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

a gift for the diamond eaters (2018-04-02) poem unrhymed

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

poem drunk on blood (2018-05-07) poem unrhymed

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

invocation (2018-06-04) poem unrhymed

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

a merciful fist, an abundance of despair (2018-11-12) poem unrhymed

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

before we found each other, before we were lost (2018-12-10) poem unrhymed

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

against entropy (2019-01-07) poem unrhymed

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

a stone in a cloud, silence in hell (2019-02-04) poem unrhymed

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

gabriel st. (2019-03-04) poem unrhymed

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

dorothea, painting a mirror (2019-10-14) poem unrhymed

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

the days too short and neverending (2019-11-11) poem unrhymed

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

one of us forsaken (2019-12-09) poem unrhymed

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

the uncertain assassin (2020-01-06) poem unrhymed

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

the words (2020-02-03) poem unrhymed

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

out of our minds and out of our league (2021-05-31) poem unrhymed

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

where we stand, or where we kneel (2021-06-28) poem unrhymed

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

we can crucify tomorrow (2021-07-26) poem unrhymed

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

one from the dark ages, late summer (2021-08-23) poem unrhymed

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

together we are (2021-09-20) poem unrhymed

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

[because we all know whose fault it was] (2023-05-01) poem unrhymed

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

no fear, only the absence of joy (2023-06-12) poem unrhymed

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

the facts (2024-01-15) poem unrhymed

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

says let me know how it feels (2024-02-19) poem unrhymed

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

fanfare for starving dogs (2024-03-18) 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 (2024-04-15) poem unrhymed

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

that first summer after my father died (2024-05-20) poem unrhymed

"...i didn’t have much to my name..."

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