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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 08/09/23

James D. Casey IV

3 POEMS by Merritt Waldon

1

Lofty perspective
Crumbling cookie of wonder
Turn away self-reflective

Trees scent the air
Our hamburger lives asunder
Scarlet smell of hair

Feet like roots twist
Moveable loan feast plunder
Matrix blushing kiss

Eyes quickening heartbeat
Age upon age our bodies thunder
Longing fruition joy complete

2

Alas sundry Southern Indiana
Interstate 65 squalling metal
& tires

Pavement scabbed memory
Fading through maples pines
Oaks and many other trees

Whilst this here rent tree/
Spirit in inked stained hand
Bleeds freedom into the

Ocean of consciousness

3

Bought clear, envelope, baggie, stamp
Falling asleep after work

Waking up and not remembering
To send across Atlantic

Secret joy drugs to fellow brother
In the service of erratic muses

Regretting apologizing
Begging forgiveness

Finding etched-out name
On the mens’ room

For eternity

©2023 Merritt Waldon All rights reserved.

Merrit Waldon (Friday’s Storm)

Merritt Waldon was born in Madison, Indiana. His work has been published in Sun Poetic Times, Crisis Chronicles, Road Dawgz, Twiztd Tungz, Fearless, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts Omnibus, Americans & Others 3rd edition, and various other venues. Merritt lives in Scottsburg, Indiana.

Merritt’s Books:

Oracles from a Strange Fire
Pistol City Blues
Madison Street Screams & Smoke Break Poems

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 07/23/21

James D. Casey IV

Glialless

They may as well start playing the following on a loop. Broken record style. It’s scientifically proven that if you lie to someone for long enough they’ll eventually begin to believe the lie. How do you think meditation works? Unfortunately, the following is not a lie but has still found a nice and cozy home within the heads of the herd.

Don’t forget! This is America and you are free
to do as you are told!

I repeat! This is America and you are free
to do as you are told!

©2021 Heath Brougher All rights reserved.

Heath Brougher

Heath Brougher is the Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press as well as poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee, he was the recipient of Taj Mahal Review’s Poet of the Year Award in 2018. He is the recent winner of the 2020 Wakefield Prize for Poetry and is slowly starting to wade back into focusing on his own work, with his 11th book “Where Hammers Dwell” due out later this year.