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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/07/24

June 7, 2024 James D. Casey IV

The Monster in the Mist

Hand stamped
the language
is unfamiliar
if you
didn’t live
it, if
you didn’t
hide it
how easy
sleight of hand
how easy
to cover
with smiles
and accomplishments
but the fear
the danger
measured, weighed
now out
in the open
the creature
gets too
confident, arrogant
extremely real
and then
caught whether
or not
you believe it.

LB Sedlacek is an award-winning writer and poet. Her latest poetry book is Unresponsive Sky published by Purple Unicorn Media. Her latest book of short stories is The Renovator & Motor Addiction published by Alien Buddha Press. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize both in poetry. Her mystery book, The Glass River, was nominated for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Prize. She also enjoys swimming and reading.

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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/06/23

September 6, 2023 James D. Casey IV

A Broken Language

I open myself
Fully

I dig through
My past

Trying to write
The pain away

I just sit here
And cry

Are tears words

Once they’ve fallen
Upon the page

I open myself
Fully

I dig deep
I wade

Through what was forgotten

For reasons

Unspoken reasons

These tears fall

These words
Born of memories

Once blacked out
Put in a box

Under a box
Behind a box
Within a closet

Door’s locked

Hidden key

I open the door

I open myself
Fully

Trying to write
It all away

The page fills with tears

These words
All end up smeared

Forming a broken
Language

Very few

Care enough to

Understand

Michael E. Duckwall was born and raised in the Ohio Valley. Growing up in a small town that most people have never even heard of, Blocher, Indiana. He’s been writing poetry since late elementary school and hasn’t shared his work with anyone until the past couple of years. Now that he’s opened up, he has so much that he wants to contribute to the writing community. This is how Michael describes his poems: “I don’t write, I release. I’m not sure if I could hold any of this in, even if I wanted to. Poetry.. my therapy, my friend, my release.”

Brother Duck also has a new book available; Ramblings of a Recovering Poet:

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 08/18/23

August 18, 2023 James D. Casey IV

Light Came Darkly

your way of language
dry against the bone
a mad scientist god
moving in another direction
driving to a plane beyond
the color
the blue moon
my love
while light came darkly
ripping heart and stone
and a monument crumbling
soft places
and the underground
I am wanting I am wanting
and the never promise
I hear a voice that lasts five centuries
and what I could not deliver
a better world

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen and has been published in Zygote Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Juice, Voices, the Collective Consciousness, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Bakwa Magazine, Cholla Needles, Blank Spaces, Black Scat Review and in the online journals BlazeVox, Kaliedoscope Online, the Bombay Review, Oddball Magazine, Brief Wilderness, the Blotter Literary Magazine, Kritikos:A-Postmodern-Journal-of-Cultural-Sound-Text-&-Image, Scissors and Spackle:A-Journal-of-the-Written-Word, the Big Windows Review, the American Diversity Report & the Lothlorien Poetry Journal blog. She participated in the high school mentorship program with the Manitoba Writers Guild, working with Canadian poet, Carol Rose. She won first prize in a poetry contest with the Writers Collective and an honorable mention in a poetry contest with the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 07/14/21

July 14, 2021 James D. Casey IV

Nothing But Time

I have nothing but time
and nothing to brag about.
I have nothing but a
healthy desire to feel well.

I am walking through mist
in a fog filled life. I can
barely see a star up
above in this climate.

I get carried away
in these uncertain days.
I read your mind, but a
whole lot is missing. You
are not an easy book.
You speak in an unknown
language I cannot learn.

Luis lives in California and works in Los Angeles. His books and chapbooks have been published by Deadbeat Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, New Polish Beat, Poet’s Democracy, Propaganda Press, Pygmy Forest Press, Rogue Wolf Press, and Ten Pages Press (e-book).