Category: Poetry
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‘The Reverie Of Rene Magritte’ by Lynn White
It was the hands that turned it into a nightmare, those pale fragile hands reaching out
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Was Professor Stout in fact the famous modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver?
Had GSG been hiding out in California, pretending to be a dumpy, down-and-out literature professor?
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2 new poems by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
the sun turns salt shaker upside down and it rains white smog
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‘Raymond’ and ‘The Shop’ by Bruce Gee
A quiet man of few words. B’Gosh overalls, squat, broad, And loyal.
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‘A Photograph I Want To Paint’ and 2 more by William Taylor Jr.
It’s as good a church as any a temporary haven from the meaner things
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‘Street Work (Forced to Move My Car)’ and 2 more by Hayden Finkelshtain
and take the lawn chair out of the trunk winnie the pooh style no pants just shirt
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‘Palm Sunday’ and 2 more by Bruce Gee
His old man was a GI / War II / Brought home a pretty English bride / Not a happy marriage on Moore Street.
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‘Hot Rod’ and one more by Strider Marcus Jones
fast and furious archangel in paint and chrome brings me home
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8 short pieces by Mykyta Ryzhykh
I will look at my dead phone and believe that Оne day Jack Bass will respond to my message in messenger
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The Theme of the Week is Tessellation Nation
This hurly-burly can best be described by this week’s Theme: we have in effect become a Tessellation Nation.
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‘new york city poem #2’ and 3 more by John Grochalski
frank says, i just turned seventy, man can you believe that horseshit?
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‘AN ODE TO JERKIN AND JERKIN OFF, A JADED JOURNEY SPENT JERKIN OFF, OR JUST ‘JERKIN OFF’, IF THAT’S YOUR THING’ by G.M.H. Thompson
He is home, takin his jerkin off, in the parlor, after he came in.
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‘That Stranger Could Have Been Him’ and 1 more by Kushal Poddar
‘Old’, a keyword in this place, browns away on a wooden plaque on some shop front.
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‘End Rhyme’ by Allan Lake
Common sense superseded by nasty non- sense queueing like so many mosquitoes
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‘moon shot mortuary’ and 4 others by Peter Magliocco
my ebony cockatoo awakens gross-splendor in a formidable lunar module gasping in cheesy release
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The Theme of the Week is Ragamuffins
If you haven’t thought about Ragamuffins in some time, you shouldn’t feel alone.
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‘A Life History in Miniature’ first 3 parts by Bruce Gee
At twenty one a friend of mine said I’m not making as many mistakes as I did last year.
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‘Confessions of a Sea Cucumber’ and 1 more by Gene Goldfarb
You might think we cats dream of mice or balls of yarn and you’d be wrong, it’s not all
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THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY
GORKO RETREAD! NO NOT REREAD, RETARD, RETREAD. BECAUSE SOME OF THE CLASSIC GORKO ARTICLES ARE OUR FAVORITES. ‘THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY’ FIRST PUBLISHED 17 JULY 2021 17 July 2021 So the three-time…
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‘I’M JUST LUCKY I GUESS’ and 2 more by John Grey
If svelte is style’s first commandment then you obey.
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2 poems by Tauwan Patterson
The shirt accents the chest. Works overtime to pump up the biceps forever trying.
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‘Friday Mornings’ by Lynn White
‘Don’t matter’ the boy said. ‘Don’t go anyway, except for Friday mornings.’
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‘Nostalgia’ by Bhanusree S. Kumar
I Was Just Doing Fine For The First 3 Days / Yet That Was Neither An Escape Nor Solution
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what the poets are doin’: 5 poems by dirt hogg sauvage respectfully
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3 poems by John Zedolik
For the greater portion of the seven-day / span down at the shore, I determined to stay
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2 poems by Sreekanth Kopuri
strings nerve-knotted to the spider’s net glowing on the handy screen that can make love with us
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‘Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram’ by Karol Nielsen
It may not have been what my friend imagined but I was prolific.
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‘Trying to Sleep’ by Bo Ransom
But the beers aren’t Hitting the system yet, which Might be why this poem blows.
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‘brigid’ and 2 more by Sadie Kromm
it was time that made me realize characters and instances are not inclusively assigned.
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‘The Wedding I Attended This Weekend’ by H.L. Dowless
Big enough from which the nude bride to climb, / Yet remaining neatly tucked away inside.
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Poetry for sale by Alannah Guevara
screen lit watch buzz frantic anxious eyes adjust. pause, let the mind catch up.
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‘Kierkegaard’s Submission Guidelines’ by Jon Doughboy
Read the tedious or cutesy or idiotic submission guidelines, and you will regret it; ignore said stupid guidelines and you will also regret it.
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‘Time & Rockets & Opposites’ and 2 more by Bob King
Something less / personal here means the still surface / of a puddle-filled pothole.
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The Theme of the Week is Leprechauns Jump Up In My Belfry
Rude and naughty are these Leprechauns Up In My Belfry.
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‘Summer is Dying’ and 3 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Outside, summer is dying into fall, and blue daddy petunias sprout ears
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‘The Town’s Secrets’ and 3 more by Kushal Poddar
She eloped with her invisible friend, fiend. The pond was bearable, green.
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‘please publish this poem so i can eat’ and 1 more by Alannah Guevara
written, revised, submitted, rejected, set aside, rerevised, resubmitted, rerejected, scrapped, found, rererevised, reresubmitted, rererejected, rescrapped, refound, rerererevised, reset aside, rererererevised, rerereresubmitted, rerererejected, rererereresubmitted, accepted, edited, rerererererevised
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‘Burning Birds & Fiery Jets: Mayday Mayday Mayday is French for Help Me’ by Bob King
Unlike the old people & the ducks, us left here in Ohio in January think we’re too smart to follow migration’s roadmap
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Was Professor Stout in fact the ‘On the Dog’ poet?
This is essentially the kind of poem that would mention flowers.
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‘BIRD POO ON THE LAWN CHAIR’ by Antoine Bargel
she was Ms. Patterson from 10th grade, a busty, jovial and too young to be true math teacher
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OFFICIAL RETRACTION: ‘Gazelle of unfended Láatsi’ by John Kucera
The only authorized English translation, by our own Tark Mackintosh, was also published in The Gorko in February 2022. We so stupid!
