FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: DEAD DAYS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words dead and/or day, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on November 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Dead Days will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, November 15, 2024

gia civerolo

 


bad girl kiss
*pomo haiku


                                                                                                   Death is a bad girl

She longed to fight and kiss through


                                                                    black eternity 


*pomo:  Post Modern





death insecurities


She was bored with death

Playing dead

Circling the same beats

A well- worn black groove

Even backwards it sounded

All the same


She was bored with death

Disguising the dead in 

Stack of statistics 

Hidden in plain sight

Twisting around a pointy

Tail she was jealous

She didn’t have

She would have loved to

Waved and stuck it

Straight in the air


She was bored with death

Tantalizing her

Whispering the same

Old lies she tried to ignore

An erection always 

Poking her in the back

Pathetic pleas when all

She wanted to do was sleep


She was bored with death

Death wasn’t used to being

Broken up with

Stalking, sulking no matter

How many times she said

No or you are so dead to me


She was surprised by how

Sniveling and insecure

Death could be






dead but not gone

I always felt sorry for you
Even before you were dead

It never felt real with you
Stalking the shelf

Framed black & white photo
Black of your eyes 

Shine only on the outside
Bone structure smile reveals

Big and tiny lies between 
Your very pretty white teeth

A breakthrough sparkle of glass
Misconception of protection

I push it at the very start
It easily breaks

Slashes across your neck
The prick cuts my finger

Deep red blood 
Gives personality 

To the haze of all 
The middle grays

In the black & white photo
Scrapping my brain

All the shrines and 
Sorrys that never came

I pretend to cry for
Pubic consumption

Not a teardrop
Falls 


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