the past modernist(s)

Before I Slip…

Another snippet from “The Cavalier’s Opera.”

Posted June 19, 2009 by Mohammad Shahisaman | Filed Under: Poetryread on

after Jefferson Airplane’s “Comin’ Back To Me”
Count the words in a single phrase.
There’s ecstasy in economy.
I know we’re inexact, uncertain match.
Like a figure in the mist,
I saw you
give meaning to the tiniest
part. Things in a jar—for example, the miniature diorama
of the castaway. A man sits alone on his island,
reading. That scenery wasn’t an accident. Your [...]

Posted May 20, 2009 by Kelli Anne Noftle | Filed Under: Poetryread on

the past modernist(s)

Welcome to the past modernist(s), a community of young, adventurous writers who are often self-conscious, mostly over-ambitious, likely self-absorbed and almost always under-motivated. the past modernist(s) is a place to express things one might wish to express if one were uninhibited by bottom lines, government censorship, political correctness, concrete shoes, alien mind probes, preteen peer pressure, mother-in-laws, or the season's fashions. The curious will find more about the past modernist(s) here.