Tag: sea

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 07/05/24

James D. Casey IV

Brainwash

Rain splashes
on the windows
of my mind

carries accumulated
thought-grime

into gutters

gushes along
through midnight
soul sewers

memory-rats hop
onto concrete ledges
to escape the torrent

homeless ideas
hang from slippery
ladders

until it all empties
from a drainpipe

into the wild

blank

wordless sea

©2024 Scott Waters All rights reserved.

Brother Waters

Scott Waters lives in Oakland, California with his wife and son. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Scott has published previously in Cajun Mutt Press, Third Wednesday, Main Street Rag, Better Than Starbucks, The Pacific Review, A New Ulster, and many other journals. Scott’s first chapbook was published by Selcouth Station, and his poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/04/23

James D. Casey IV

My Star

There’s one particular
Star in the night sky
That I know is my star.
I know it’s mine because
It’s faint and flickering
Like a candle burning
Near its wick’s end.
Once a mighty presence.
Now more a memory.
A memory engulfed
by a sea of memories
Tossing and turning
On the tides of an
Ever ebbing mind.
In the end, you just sit
And television is your
Only friend. Others
Can’t be bothered
With the likes of you.
Their own stars are
Shining and rising with
The moon and need
Tending before they,
Too, begin to flicker.

©2023 Daniel S. Irwin All rights reserved.

Brother Dan

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Daniel S. Irwin was born, raised, and is back in town at Sparta, Illinois. His card reads: Artist, Actor, Writer, Soldier, Scholar, Priest. He has won awards for his art, acting (over 100 films and 30+ stage productions), writing (nine books and work published in over one hundred magazines and journals world-wide), retired military (Air Force and Army), graduate of Southern Illinois University/Carbondale and has attended four other universities), and is an ordained Dudeist priest with a Ph.D. in Divinity (not bad for a heathen). Once worked as a medic in an institution for the criminally insane…but didn’t notice anything strange about the inmates. Latest on-line work can be found on Horror, Sleaze, Trash Magazine and Beatnik Cowboy. He would love to move back to Europe but fears the plague.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 11/09/22

James D. Casey IV

T e n d r i l s

And disappearing
Into the sea
Go the things
We used to be
Long thin tendrils
Strewn over waves
Of time
Dancing
In the dying sun
Breathlessly

©2022 John Drudge All rights Reserved.

John Drudge

John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019), The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.