My regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot of late. Indeed, my last posting was on a book I published under The Metamodern Press, Immolation of an Angel. When I’m not working full time, I had been preparing that manuscript, and now I am preparing…

A Biased Review Immolation of an Angel by Mohammad Sarwar is the first publication of The Metamodern Press. If you’re wondering why this is a “biased review,” it’s because I am The Metamodern Press. I don’t want to go into what Metamodernism is outside of the fact that Metamodern literature…

We have to pay the mortgage soon One third of that is tax We have to pay the day care, too We never can relax My wife and I each…

When I was growing up, I went to church — A church that preached that women should wear skirts Or dresses only — look the woman’s part — Wear blouses only, never pants and shirts. We also learned that sex was bad outside Of holy matrimony — genuflects Before your God…

A spot of warmth, tight twisting, rising air Atop an ocean, sun-warmed. Rising air Pulls water, molecule by molecule, Reforming droplets in the rising air Until the ocean Fibonacci spirals…

In nothingness the universe began — Asymmetried some 14 billion years Ago into cascades of galaxies. Must I defend this truth, reality? Upon this earth, from molecules emerged Evolving life from single cells to apes With microscopes, who can write poetry. Must I defend this truth, reality? A human mind…

The vampire living on top of the hill Has ruled our town with terror centuries. He tells us that he keeps us safe and will As long as he exists — and we must please Him, feed his thirst or, we’ve learned, he will spill More blood than we have…

The coward destroys, despises, and hates — Denies all virtue, knowledge, charity — Empowers only hooded hangmen, debates Nobody, certain he is right — he’ll flee From love and risk and pain at any cost, And will not suffer any suffering To bring success, for that condemns —…

You may be wondering by now why I have primarily been discussing the formal elements of poetry writing. …