Poetry Super Highway

Poetry Super Highway

February 14-20, 2011: Nicholas Petrone and Daniel S Irwin

Nicholas Petrone
nickpetrone13@hotmail.com 

 

Bio (auto)

Nicholas Petrone’s poems can be found in many places, including The Ranfurly Review, Willows Wept Review, Epiphany Magazine, Word Salad and in boxes in his attic He was the winner of the Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest for 2010 but already spent the money He lives in Syracuse, NY where he counts snowflakes for a living.

The following work is Copyright © 2011, and owned by Nicholas Petrone and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.


 

Tea Leaf 

A little embarrassed that I’m 33
and still play air guitar from time to time
but that’s just society pushing down on my shoulders
and watching me through the frosted windows somehow
and isn’t sublimation
just a form
of magic?
isn’t transubstantiation
a species
of Darwinism
and transmutation a cult
of lab coat pagans
crashing into cosmic dust?
and isn’t this stanza
somewhat crowded –

can we begin anew,
looking underneath the labels
of our childproof medicine bottles
like sandbox scientists
marveling at the graining vortex
as we count one thousands
like temporary angels above the sieve?

 

 

 

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Daniel S Irwin
niwrid@hotmail.com

Bio (auto)

Daniel S Irwin born in the back woods of Southern Illinois in the small town of Sparta Trust him, he’s a Spartan A man of many hats: artist, writer, actor, soldier, scholar, priest .which he claims doesn’t really get one all that much Graduate of Southern Illinois University “because it was there” Retired from military and a state position as a medic in a maximum security prison working with the criminally insane (sometimes referred to as ‘supervisors’), he has had work published in over one hundred magazines, journals, and what not in the US and abroad He has also published nine books (seven of poetry .mostly underground and bawdy humor) He takes great pride in the fact that his work has been banned in several places and is burned by religious fanatics on a consisted basis

The following work is Copyright © 2011, and owned by Daniel S Irwin and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.

 

 

In The Morning 

In the morning,
She said, “Johnny,
Make me a pizza ”
Which I found
Rather annoying
As my name is Dan.

 

 

 

 

 

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