John Courtney

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

Michael Cartright

CHINESE RESTAURANT JAZZ HITS

How American:

mixing the greatest hits

of ethnic culture

The blessed generation

will pay a costly price

for dancing in robes

of the washed masses

Eventually everything

gets cashed in

and the soul of civilization

will not hold

will give in

will get righted

and the light

bathed in white

will dye out

we'll be tossed

or grooved again

if it doesn't

but it will

grass will always

make it's stand

through the sidewalks

on which we stand

clapping

Dave Ashmore

HEDGEPEEK TO NARRATIVE

full face flame

full masquerade

eyeholes cut clean thru

w/ ockham's razor

held trembling to breath

of modern dream

media hype

turns golden

piqued

by future's past sentiment

& wounded

by nostalgia

cave painting modern

miracles into the

gallery of being

where scientific snapshots dance up

against scriptural quanta

w/out glance

to choose particle

over wave

etch dreamstone signatures

onto each unblinking

private eye

blocking out the reveal