FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HEART FLAMES Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Heart Flames are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Rob Tannahill

Presently, A Dream


Of delicate hands

Working a flame

Climbing, burning

Between two X shapes

Constructed of fragrant wood

And there are

Sparks flashing

They give off

Fleshy clicks

Over a caramelized heart

Nice and toasty

Crying eat me

Crying now

God help us

Where are we?

At the end of a tunnel

Made of eyes

And all that can be heard 

is fuckin' critics

Screech and scratch and claw

With dirty little words

Coming from their flaming mouths

And their caramelized hearts

Pumping, spurting

Hot challenges to your will

Straight to the hitch in your throat

Straight to the places we don't talk about

Straight to everywhere we ever

wanted to go

Or never

Or at least never wanted

Anyone to know

But we hide behind

What we want everyone else to see

And we hide behind

Anything we can read about integrity

And we crawl behind

The ever-present mother

Working the flame

With her caramelized heart

And it's a bloody day

Just for us

This is a rejoicing

This is love

This is a new hymn

An ode to joy

Sung by a desert serpent

With big hopes

And a hole full of

glass in his chest

Call it lovely

Call it true

Just don't let it be you


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Marvinlouis Dorsey

It's no- thing but a game that fucks me up ya know  and i  can't  take a pic- ture