Fiction & Poetry

Do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?

Do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?

Groundhog, do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs? In a windowless bunker at 222 Bowery? (back in the bad old days on Bowery) Chipmunk, do you burrow like William S. Burroughs? Boro Cooling and Heating, LLC, you provide comfort to the houses... read more »

 

Jackie

Jackie

Jackie-ing Jackie reading Jack Ker-o-uac Black Jack Bouvier Parlez-vous … français? jack be nimble jack be spry jack jump over apple pie (with Iowa vanilla ice cream) Jack Tar jack flash Jack & Jill (Kris & Keven All good children... read more »

 

Cat in Bop Hat

Cat in Bop Hat

Take all blank nights at country blue grass blues To spend one digging cat in be hat At Five Spot You haven’t heard Monk Till ye seen him Thump! Bump! Bump! Thump! Hip jazz angel Hop essential Harp the bass Hype the place Tip the daisy Pull... read more »

 

Soap Suds Cacophony

Soap Suds Cacophony

Bickford’s washing up storm soap suds cacophony submarine night hey, Huck, pitch in Bird blew same in Harlem club all over town the pearl diving jam scrap pile plunge solos improvs sudsy scalding water wet mess best minds, best fingers, scrubbing... read more »

 

Weehawkenist Spring Ling

Weehawkenist Spring Ling

  Spring I hope for Giggling Ling[1] a bright and green young strident thing Ling and I shall ping pong ping bebop Rhythm-a-ning bing and dream eternal heavenly spring ding, ding…ding a ling… swing dissonance ping wing[2] Trinkle Tinkle,... read more »

 

The Great Breakthrough

The Great Breakthrough

“He made an effort to hold down a regular job, but he was a terrible employee and didn’t seem to be suited for anything practical…” I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan I once had an extraordinary... read more »

 

Paterson

Paterson

by G.K. Stritch – find her on Amazon   A criminal — car thief, wife beater, sociopath — told me about the Great Falls in Paterson, New Jersey, when I was seventeen. Probation mandated that the thug enlist in a state-funded... read more »

 

Come Tumbling Down

Come Tumbling Down

The parts of summer that Annie and I weren’t together could only mean one of two things: that one of us was sleeping or working. When Annie was working, I found ways to keep myself busy. There were plenty of things to do and I usually played... read more »

 

Holy Saint Man of Seventh Avenue South

Holy Saint Man of Seventh Avenue South

by G.K. Stritch – find her on Amazon When I was a little girl, early in the 1960s, my mother and father and sisters and brother and I were driving home from an outing at New York’s Central Park Zoo. My father drove down Seventh Avenue South... read more »

 

Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear

a short story by katy gurin Christine and Jason went to a new friend’s costume party dressed as grizzly bears. They learned to mimic a bear’s loose, muscular, pigeon-toed gait, and they artfully constructed outfits from shaggy fake... read more »