Author: Steven Harz
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Numbers Two of us and six beers later huddled in the back seat of a ’78 Plymouth parked in the dark behind the Eighth Avenue Church shirt pulled off and skirt hiked mid-thigh exposing goose-pimpled inner thighs discussing that morning’s 2nd period Physics class while making out to Jackson 5 static from B104 FM traveling…
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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 your fading light At…
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Sam Cook of Button Poetry reads his poem, “On Feeling Safe” as an homage to his fiance, Emily.
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For Sue and Steve A generation ago they had fallen in then out of love and learned that in either case there was no net Onward they moved to separate points on the same map and with their hearts affixed to different “I Do’s” their minds occasionally wandered back to each other in times of…
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I have posted Sierra DeMulder’s work in the past, and I will again in the future I’m sure. This week please read her stunning poem “Your Son Has a Beautiful Voice” Read it. Now. Then read it again later. It’s that good….. http://www.sierrademulder.com/text/
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“Fallen Leaves” Blurb As autumn comes to the Winston estate in Ohio, Amber Harrison learns further lessons in her new position as keeper for the spirits and ghosts who haunt the estate–and further lessons in love, too. She and her love, Carter Miller, grapple with the fears and passions of new love, while caught up…
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Originally posted on Ash2: ~ ~ Today?s Short #Poem 303 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/todays-short-poem-303/ * She told me she divides her day into half-hour chunks with a treat at the end a piece of chocolate a cup of tea? The difficulty, she said is keeping your mind elsewhere Ashley Bovan
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Paying homage to one of my favorite bands, my poem “KIngsfoil” was a winner in The Iron Writer Challenge! Poetry / “Kingsfoil”
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Since I’m a big Steely Dan fan I, of course, love this review I received for my book “Gas Station Road Map”! Steven Harz takes me back to a time when Steely Dan was on the radio and I was finding myself as a person. Very insightful and very talented. Looking forward to more of…
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I’m pretty sure that there is some blasphemy in here somewhere (!!) but this is beautiful nonetheless. Please enjoy Gage Wallace’s reading of “Joseph Speaks To Mary”on Button Poetry!
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Aladdin’s lamp Beneath where your hair falls when wet and just above where my arms rest during morning shower hugs is a birthmark in the shape of a magic lamp that used to make you laugh but has made me thankful each day for our too-brief one thousand and one nights and beyond my arm…
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 