HAPPINESS IS A FISH NAMED MELVIN

Now available in the Big Wonderful Store

 

 

 

Clever poetry and prose on the absurdity of mortality from Big Wonderful Press. This is a chapbook (bite-size) anthology including work by Jennifer MacPherson, Karen Skolfield, Brendan Walsh, Alexis Pope, and more.

A body is sixty percent 

ocean & the rest, sediment—

……………. Tanya Grae

There’s no one to check My temperature to tell 

If I’m cheating or heating On a hot young bulb 

…………..Alexis Pope

Because we become whom we love, 

I reluctantly float up chimneys like heavy smoke, 

beat against this rocky shore and try to change 

the coastline’s shape.

………Jennifer MacPherson

map the dirt’s crawl from saplings 

to sky to falling fruit and dirt again. 

So we swing.

……………..Brendan Walsh