Prose Poetry

“The Source Says” by Patrick Simonelli

PROSE POETRY

MY SISTER says she searched for the girl per my request the girl I liked twenty years ago. My sister says she can’t tell if the source is accurate but it looks like she may be married and living in Your Town, USA. She says she doesn’t recognize the husband’s name and the source says he’s older than us so she doesn’t think he is one of our former classmates. However she doesn’t know if it’s a good idea to contact her. We don’t know if her husband would be jealous or if it would be safe for her to talk to other men, in her culture, since she is married. Some cultures are strict about things like that. But does the source say I used to hear her giggling from the school bus seat behind me or that I would follow her eyes in our class to see how she was feeling? No the source doesn’t say anything about that does it?

Oh it’s just me the weirdo in one of my moods, missing her from twenty years ago. Imagining what she looks like now. I bet she is still beautiful. I don’t care how many kids she gave birth to. Oh I bet she is still beautiful.

Pat Simonelli is a writer for Literary Vision Press. Write him at: 128 Osborne St. #403, Danbury CT 06810.

“unprocessed thoughts” by Bach Le

NEW POETRY

photo c/o dogsaddict

why is that dog biting its owner is it the chains and ropes that pull the shepherd to a suicidal thought or is it the man that harasses his friend to test if he can manipulate the docility of an animal but look the blood is pouring out like droplets of watercolor paints that used to impregnate my xs-sized tee and now it’s there but only darker and sadder i would laugh my stomach out when red pours out because it’s a dumb mistake but now why is the dog so unhesitant and merciless towards its owner the old man that walks it everyday cares for it baths it in the pouring rain despite his asthma and gives it a little bow in its chest is it tamed is it a disguised wolf why is it now lying on the floor growling rolling screaming and the man is running with crimson traces in his route and something in his hand like a folded story he wants no one to know about?

Bach Le is currently living and studying in Hanoi, Vietnam. His poems have previously been in Synchronized Chaos, Haikuniverse, and more. Through poetry, Bach hopes to give voice to different issues in society, as well as showing his attitudes towards life with its various dimensions.