Take One Three Times A Day —poetry by Michael Marrotti

Chemicals flow
down the stream
of disorder

Dissolving in a
matter of minutes
A mitigation of
countless hours

Contradicting
these caustic feelings
They've been by
my side throughout
this tumultuous journey

I'm a fucking mess
but I'm inhibited
in this moment

I agree there's
a problem
that supersedes
another

This dependency
is slavery
But it's the only
form I know
that offers
emancipation

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The Poet: Michael Marrotti is an author from Pittsburgh using words instead of violence to mitigate the suffering of life in a callous world of redundancy. His primary goal is to help other people. He considers poetry to be a form of philanthropy. When he's not writing, he's volunteering at the Light Of Life homeless shelter on a weekly basis. If you appreciate the man's work, please check out his blog:www.thoughtsofapoeticmind.blogspot.com for his latest poetry and short stories.

The Photographer: Jefferson Fetters lives and works in downtown Seattle.

ALUMNI #94 —a poem by Darren C. Demaree

Internally,

the petal knows

 

the growth

has happened

already

& more growth

is only

the re-naming

of the old

sequence

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The Poet: Darren C. Demaree's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, The Louisville Review, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (2013, 8th House), Temporary Champions (2014, Main Street Rag), The Pony Governor (2015, After the Pause Press), and Not For Art Nor Prayer (2015, 8th House). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

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The Photographer: Jefferson Fetters lives and works in downtown Seattle.

Yes or No —a poem by Suchoon Mo

Yes or No

yes or no
do I dare or do I not dare
because yes I say or no I say
it is to be or not to be

a very silly question
to ask or not to ask
yes to be or no not to be
and so on and so forth




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The Poet: Suchoon Mo is a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado.

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The Photographer: Jefferson Fetters lives and works in downtown Seattle.