Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal. Making Meaning from the Past Social History: Poems by Bobby C. Rogers “We were there to visit the ruins, the shabby places my father had lived during the Depression,” writes Bobby C. Rogers in the title poem of his collection, Social History. The speaker is six at the time of the …
First of all—hi. Warmly. Because that’s how you’ve always greeted me—with love. Remember me? You were a big brother or sister to me a long time ago when I warily stepped into church—a spiritual seeker, highly skeptical of Christians—and you shocked me with how kind you were and how closely you listened. That one night—when …
Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of Image Journal. Poetry of Visions A Horse with Holes in It by Greg Alan Brownderville Biblical visions, for all their bewildering oddity—Ezekiel’s wheels, Isaiah’s live coal to the lips—can carry a realer-than-real-life quality. A cover tears away; everything sharpens. If you’re drawn to that cocktail of wonder and fear, …
I’ve started brewing poems lately, after a long time of not. A bit about this one: For many years, I’ve been drawn to a character named Mad Maudlin, who appears in 17th and 18th century Bedlamite ballads. She was the female counterpart to a “Mad Tom o’Bedlam” character, the catch-all term for asylum inmates released …
If there’s an afterlife, I don’t know what it’s going to do with Rob and me. When we come to the door of the great beyond, if such there be, maybe we’ll sit busking forever just outside the fence, until they start throwing the rotten fruit of Eden at us. At least Death Cab wrote a …