David Barker

Could death be this alluring?

walking past a darkened room,

I want to go in.

Survival instinct

sometimes you

must pull back

from the

precipice.

On company time

the last time

I saw our new receptionist,

she was playing a hole

of miniature golf

over by Mary’s office

at $5 a round

for the state employees

food drive. she

looked fine. “it beats

working the front desk,”

she told me. a

week later, she

died in

intensive care.
           
                                                                                                                               
                       

David Barker's fiction and poetry has appeared in many small press books and magazines since the early 1970s. In 2011, Bottle Of Smoke Press published his comic surreal novel, Death At The Flea Circus. A small collection of poems, Opal's Trails, appeared from Pig Ear Press in 2013, and in 2014 Dark Renaissance Books issued The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal, a horror novella written in collaboration with W. H. Pugmire.

Painting Courtesy: Marko Davidović

Marko Davidović was born in belgrade, 1981, finished Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, 2005, in Graphic Design. Had 4 solo exhibitions and several group ones with some awards for graphic, graphic design, painting, drawing, own made font and calligraphy.