To The Editor Who Asked For A Poem

                                                 © Henry Denander

Haven't you heard?  I moved to Utah and died.

No...no...I don't think I died

Well maybe I did die

I am not sure

Leaving for Arches tomorrow

If you still want poems

In five days

I will send

I will leave your

Face up

To remind me

Or maybe this

Is a poem

If you can tell

Use it

One never knows

Now days

- by Linda King  7/6/15

Linda King, rasied in the wild country of Boulder, Utah.  The last place in USA where mail was delivered on horseback. Author of Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski, a humorous and wild record of women's lib and romance in the 70's. Author of numerous poetry books and a novel Mad Ouija. Lives in St. George, Utah.

Henry Denander was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an artist and a poet and his latest book “The Accidental Navigator” was published by Lummox Press. 

He has a website with poetry and art at www.henrydenander.com.

pain and mistakes

   

© Rafael González                                                                              © Rafael González

I am recovering from this open surgery

I am recovering from this pain and mistakes

people make even at the cost of a life

to them we are just fucking numbers.

They almost got me by pushing insulin

when i never had a history of diabetics

and I started shouting when I realized.

Soon they stopped and got so angry that

they threw me out of the ICU.

I was lucky not to get into that

insulin-induced coma from which

many people could never return,

hanging midway like Artaud

during his last few months

between living and the dead.

-by Subhankar Das

                                                                                  
Subhankar das is a poet, bookstore owner, and publisher of Bangla experimental materials. He produced six short films that have been honored at international film festivals, and has translated the works of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski in Bengali.

Art Courtesy: Rafael González

Rafael González is a visual and sound artist and he hails from Spain.