All This Is That

by Jack Brummet ---o0o---

By Jack Brummet 1   You can't see earth From the dark side of the moon But maybe that changes With the accelerating deceler...

It is 12:20 in New York a Friday  three days after Bastille day, yes  it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine  because I will get...

Ozymandias  by Percy Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the deser...

The thoughts of others were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting, or luck and fame. Mine were of trouble, and mine were steady; So I wa...

By Jack Brummet W hen I'm not here I'm often there e.g., anywhere that's not here I'm there, but not all there ...

By Jack Brummet 1 The host and tenant lock         In benign equilibrium. 2 Each valley followed by a slope.          Every...

[in Just-] BY  E. E. CUMMINGS in Just- spring          when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles...

What I'm not changes more than what I am. So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted. The wound hu...

By Jack Brummet The sun plays Its song On mountains Blueing in the dusk And climbs Another yellow horizon. A pale fl...

Excavated by Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed. T o chase a never-reached mirage Across the hot, white sand, And choke and die, while gazing on ...

By Jack Brummet The figure you brushed in, Stuck under static skies, Wants off the canvas. He will not be your Man With Blue Banj...

By Jack Brummet 1. There is no verisimilitude, No character development Or contrapuntal plotting— Only shadowy acts and inten...

By Jack Brummet I n a pale grey fog, I see the ghosts Of ancient Helleniki mariners Sailing phantom steamships, sloops, Pra...

By Jack Brummet We all have a platoon Of partly-contained Spooky and multiple personalities Ready to burst  From the con...

By Jack Brummet Jericho was locked down tighter than a submarine. It made Helms Deep and Fort Knox look porous. Joshua studie...

By Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed. From  Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe by  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (First Editio...

By Jack Brummet, and the poetry generator 1 The cloud endures like a red sun. Winds calmly rise like a dead captain. 2 Love, ...

By Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed. A sad, but fascinating memoir of one of my poetry mentors, Bob Huff.   Jump here, to Lewis Turco's bl...

Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem about the city of gold.  The line from this poem "Ride, boldly ride," has been used as the t...