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[jsydbrantley]

Airplane mode

What if for a moment We could disconnect?      What if as humans we had an airplane mode?

What would we lose? Who would we be      Stuck alone inside our own heads?

Alone with no one to      Touch      Hear      Speak of      Think of

I wonder if there would be Some sort of clarity?      White light?      Dark night?

If I could no longer be bombarded By the open wifi networks of this world      Would I finally see myself more clearly?

Or would I be an empty shell?      A dead phone      With no use      A paper weight

A reminder of when I did nothing      Nothing but stay connected all the time.

Want to read more in the iJennie series?

Check out “A red circle with a number inside.”

[schuylerpeck]

If YellowStone Ever Erupts by Schuyler Peck, published by Rising Phoenix Review

[schuylerpeck]

Read the full poem here!! Brought to You by: Avoidable Tragedies for the Sake of Your Pride

[envie-noire]

after this we changed the channel to baseball did you hear about that muslim guy who killed all those faggots? my little cousin doesn’t know my little cousin doesn’t know at age 11/his voice chirpi…

My first poem of three published in @risingphoenixpress this month just happens to fall on my birthday! Honored to be a part of a publication I admire so much. 💙

[weaponizedlove-blog]

New York City, you are incessant and I love you for it. I cannot fall asleep side by side with silence. I cannot fall asleep beside a dark window, spotted intermittently with points of light. I need the purple clouds, morning-adjacent, the Poughkeepsie equivalent of dawn, a siren down the block, then more sirens, then a car alarm. New York City, you are a symphony and you amaze me. The distorted projection of my grandmother’s windowpane on the ceiling of her one bedroom apartment alternates between light and dark – either headlights, accompanied by the lull of an engine, or silence, or close enough.

APRIL THIRD: WRITE A LOVE POEM TO YOUR HOMETOWN ( s.b.l. )                                                from @risingphoenixpress April prompts