Don’t Ever Tell Me You Understand What’s Going On
We take a trip to London and my daughter asks me to buy her a Taco Bell. “Please, Dad. Buy me a Taco Bell!” She watched an influencer on...
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Joe Haward
- Mar 4
- 2 min
People are Poems --- Guest Post by Gavin Turner
Poems are like people They have their own rhythms and curves, Sometimes, they swerve a syllable Or a whole verse because they don’t feel...
Joe Haward
- Feb 21
- 1 min
The Rosary --- Guest Post by Melissa Pumayugra
God, I lost you before I even knew you. The man threw a chair across the room, a table overturned. You didn’t answer me, and I began...
Joe Haward
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Plastic Bucket --- Guest Post by Anthony J.P
Lying broken on the sand, Cracked No longer fit for purpose. Castles long since washed away By the tide. It remains Enduring as granite...
Joe Haward
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Graffiti Rock --- Guest Post by Arden Hunter
I knew you were a part of my tribe she said, blowing smoke over my face like a benediction I turned and trailed the pads of my fingers...
Joe Haward
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Triptych of Teeth --- Guest Post by Courtenay S. Gray
I The meat of the sea chopped me up sushi knife with sesame seeds glued together like teeth primal screams came from the house with the...
Joe Haward
- Feb 11
- 1 min
The Murder of Who I Could Have Been --- Guest Post by M. T. Bennett
I gaze in the mirror as it gazes at me I don’t recognize the face that I see I expected a hero, yet this isn’t he For I’m not the man...
Joe Haward
- Feb 9
- 1 min
Memento --- Guest Post by B F Jones
She brings back fragments of him Tastes them The tip of her finger Smacked against her mouth, Remembering The tart grimace of his own...
Joe Haward
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Canidae --- Guest Post by Kellie Scott-Reed
Had I noticed the dark gray of the heavily trafficked floor as I stepped off the elevator? Winter inside, winter out. I had left work and...
Joe Haward
- Feb 4
- 1 min
C. A. R. ---- Guest Post by Raymond Moore
Cortisol the enemy within penetrates everything covered by skin. Acid mornings muscles tight strangles hope too fucked to fight. Brain...
Joe Haward
- Feb 2
- 1 min
dried kisses --- Guest Post by Courtenay S. Gray
after Frank O’Hara nighttime is not blue it is a black olive with a frosted window a sommelier pours the stars onto our taut shoulders...
Joe Haward
- Jan 17
- 1 min
Nostalgia
Longing for a fictional past Gazing into Chimera’s eyes Society trembles. What have we become? Bodies writhe on modernity’s battlefield...
Joe Haward
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
Winner of Poetry Competition
I'm delighted to have won JNCO Poser's poetry competition. The theme was the ’90s grunge/drug scene. As a teenager of the '90s, this...
Joe Haward
- Nov 25, 2021
- 1 min
Broken Skin
Hate reverberates beneath laughter's echo Thinly veiled Splitting respectability's facade. You speak as though the words are not yours A...
Joe Haward
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
Pushcart Prize Nomination
I'm delighted to tell you that my poem, "Frankie," has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize 2022. A Thin Slice of Anxiety,...