Author: Steven Harz
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Like I suppose Columbus held while he sailed the ocean blue, I try to locate you with a brass compass. Like I’ve seen Gandhi wear, while nonviolently battling the Brits, I battle old photos through clear round gold frames Like I learned da Vinci designed, in between the helicopter and scuba gear, on…
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My poem – ‘Paperweight’ – nope appears on Soundcloud. Click over and have a listen! https://soundcloud.com/steven-harz/paperweight-1
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“Steven covers a huge range of situations that complete the human experience; from love to anger, sadness to happiness they are all covered. Many of the stories had me reflecting on my own life, what I’ve done and how I’ve come to be where I am now. He is a great storyteller and is well…
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I have become a front porch Bell jar wino looking for yesterday But all I want is to be a back alley junkie freebasing glimpses of tomorrow And on each day of your absence I’ve received a morphine drip of your perceived value While fearing the dark and squinting to find…
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A mixture of equal parts of love and grief, “Songs you can’t dance to” contains poems that center on the anticipation and joy of new and maintained love as well as the sorrow and pain of longing and loss. Additionally, this volume includes eight works of short fiction that range in theme from high school…
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Gunpowder ghosts I am unsure that you still exist because my memories are grainy and out of focus like films of bigfoot lumbering across the landscape leaving footprints real or not Perhaps you’re still here and are held up by invisible strings like blurry pie plates in UFO films that we once watched…
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B is for Browne How will I know if we’re through, she asked half kidding, even though they’d only been together since the hot summer and now it was the crisp fall. He explained that being a fan of what he calls ‘suicide music’ that any dark period in his life, and…
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While I was aware of your unrest with our love While you wished for more time each week and while I prayed for forever, not just today, you formed and executed your exit strategy And while you’d think your wish and my prayer were sweetly juxtaposed I went for coffee while you…
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Red The stop signs (two) and traffic lights (too many to count) between his house and hers were (considered by him to be) impediments to the far too few minutes and hours that they spent together each day (or week or month) but the same red lights and signs on his way home were…
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My poem “Eventually I will miss you forever” is now being featured over at Word+Pictures. Head on over and take a look! http://wordspluspicturesblog.com/2016/02/29/eventually-i-will-miss-you-forever/
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Inwood Indiana is at it again! Despite being the smallest press in the world™, Inwood Indiana attracts talented writers from all over. This issue features fine fiction and poetry by Mitchell Allen, Christine Angersola, Mary Bamburg, Gary Beck, April Mae Berza, Reilly Blackwell, Meg Boeni, Eric Bonholtzer, Ute Carson, Anna Cates, Jakob Chapman, Giulia Ciaghi,…
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 