Poetry

"...The dead tide settles inside my room..."

"... a Sigh that escaped Your soul..."

"...I accept what is..."

"...a treasure overflows with pearls..."

"...cryptic and clouded, reveal just enough detail to cause trouble..."

"...Why spoil the surprise For youth in their prime?..."

Jay Passer's poetry and prose has appeared in print and online magazines, periodicals and anthologies since 1988. He is the author of 12 collections, most recently "The Cineaste," from Alien Buddha Press, 2021.

"my poem is an opposite, reverse, backward one..."

"...we are on lockdown to fight the storm that has come..."

"...A rope, a dragon..."

"...we sold this whole world out to blue light specials..."

"...The singers of songs love bars..."

"...Not for the false compliments that slide off his baroque tongue..."

"...while men whistle their sad desperation in wounded catcalls..."

"...why do we thrive in thought?"

"...I ask him about the last time he's been anywhere..."

"...hiding in your shadow sipping your vintage..."

"...in a freeing, frank and fearless fashion..."

"...fake tears are now dried in the evening sun..."

"...dense forest, now a clean-shaven look, bullish real estate..."

"...in truth you're lucky to be holding a seven..."

"...They look at each other again and again..."

"...cut, he quit cold turkey..."

"...activists Get branded as anarchists..."

"...never lived to see what a beauty this life could have been..."

"...It often appears under a passing cloud or nestled beside me in the warmth of my shadow...."

Mark Parsons' poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Ex Pat Press, Dreich, Cape Rock, and I-70 Review. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

"...even scarier and riskier to humans..."

"...smell the twilight, laugh at darkness,..."