Fiction & Poetry
Category5 Poems
Pushing back her violent hair’s
nimbus of corpses, each clinging
to its thread of Pity me, please
Learning to Forget
The first essay in Kevin Breathnach’s ‘Tunnel Vision’ (2019) is a profile of portrait photographer Berenice Abbott, whose ‘Self-Portrait with a Large-format Camera’ (1926) frames Breathnach’s account of her life, her place within the 1930s arts scene of New York, and the relationship between her photography and the viewer.
5 Poems
NO signaling!
33 is simply the age of death of Jesus Christ,
my worldwide targeted individual.
The Blueprint for Saving an Angel
It is mid-September, and I, with every knowledge possible of the event in which I was driving to, chose to wear a suit jacket, my most elegant white button-down, a tie, my finest jeans and terribly worn down, ill-fitting shoes that I paid for with cash at the Value Village furthest where I am now.
Blah Day / What is the vase in a tombstone called?
People also ask:
Discharge #486
Your designation as an officer of the Imperial Security Bureau allows full access to this weapon’s memory banks.
Zeke [Excerpt]
We headed up to Milwaulkee after that, why I don’t know.
Humorous Artist
Humorous Artist is a certain kool woman whom we find one spring-autumn evening amidst the lights of the metropolis, while she shines with longing for those same lights.
Aestar ignit iluda
The wind carried with it ash and sand, blight that clung to the corneas, even behind the spectacles.
The Woman with Mice
This is the truth. The mice were really her whole problem.