Author name: genetwaronite

The Last Fact

This poem is from my second collection, The Museum of Unwearable Shoes. I thought I’d share it today in honor of Mark Zuckerberg, who just announced that Meta is doing away with fact checking. Apparently facts are no longer important in these heady days of shifting reality, and we remember how his empire all started […]

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Credo

Here’s an ABC poem (also known as abecedarian), one of the poems in my latest collection Death at the Mall. The poem gets its name because the first letter of each line begins with the letter A and follows sequentially through the alphabet to Z.

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A Sparrow Alone

Found Poem from The Book of Psalms We spend our years as a tale that is told.I have considered the days of old,the years of ancient times.We see not our signs. My days are consumed like smoke.I am weary with my groaning.For I have eaten ashes like bread,and mingled my drink with weeping.I watch, and

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Dethroned

It has no effect on them, the zookeeper replied,when asked about the rhino’s missing horn.Better dehorned than dead.Saw it off now before they come in the nightto murder and dethrone your crowning gloryto be ground into magical cure-all powderor carved into obscene jeweled daggersto adorn a prince’s empty existence.Just remove the profit motive.How easy it

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What Do Trees Talk About?

Now that we know how they signal each otherthrough root hairs and fungal threads of meaning,will we ever learn to read these signalsand know what it is they talk aboutin the dark loamy layers below? Surely there must be moreto their talk than survivalas when insects or fires threaten,just as we sapiens came to learngrunts

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Imaginary Garden

My poem “Imaginary Garden” has just been published in New Myths Magazine Issue #67  https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue67b/issue-67-stories/imaginary-garden It has also been nominated for a Readers Choice Award. If you go to the home page (https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-home/home-page) you can read and rank the nominated poems and stories.

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Memory Care

I have long been fascinated by science fiction and often write poetry in this genre. Here is my latest offering, which suddenly decided it wished to become a shape poem. It was just published in issue #66 of NewMyths.com, a quarterly online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. You can read it here: https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-66/issue-66-stories/memory-care

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