April 18, 2023

Week Three: John Kucera, Jaya Abraham, Gopal Lahiri

Week Three: John Kucera, Jaya Abraham, Gopal Lahiri

Poet and fabulist John Kucera entertains us with two poems and two fables, an ancient form of narrative intended to entertain and instruct. Compass  Clouds and storms hover  Over us like a lost thought.  A strange idea we once had to build a log cabin together  and explore worlds beyond our own.  But our lives were surmounted by menial tasks  and we never got around to our plans like the campfire and the sunsets  and the paintings of a dry winter and the umbrella of youth closing slowly but surely on all these things we remember later  in our circles of routine.  We were both deserted but they were also forgotten.  Our plans, still changing, and guiding us today like the compass above a rooftop and the wolf we patted at the Indian neighbor’s house,…

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April 11, 2023

Week Two: AJ Huffman, Morouje Sherif, Charles Remmelkamp

Week Two: AJ Huffman, Morouje Sherif, Charles Remmelkamp

We’re so delighted to welcome A. J. Huffman and her poetry to Fictional Cafe. A.J. is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.  She has published 27 collections and chapbooks of poetry.  In addition, she has published her work in numerous national and international literary journals.  She is currently the editor for Kind of a Hurricane Press literary journals.      Two Boards Don’t Always Equal An X  I wear his depression for hours.  Like a crown of duller thorns, it does not bleed me.  But breeds a bizarre dissension.  I understand the gray it is shading. Around my edges it appears.  Colder than his.  He shudders. Mistaking the chill for lore.  It is not your soul leaving your body. I sigh.  (It is my soul trying to breathe.)  You worry I am not strong/safe/alive enough to hold you.  You are wrong (Such…

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