[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 17 of Neon features the work of Rachelle Taylor, Sergio Ortiz, Howie Good, Louise Norlie, Carol Carpenter, Janet Smith, R Jay Slais and Noam GR. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we publish a small donation is appreciated….
Month: November 2008
Lost Jacket Blues
The last time I saw it it was stepping off the curb between two parked cars in Cleveland, its pockets empty but for her hands, its top button loose and dangling like the head of a hanged Nazi, though others swear they’ve since seen it from behind and in the somber company of rain, notwithstanding…
Pronouns for My Sister
We—the plural “we”—we wonder what God was thinking, when He made it so that we don’t feel the cut until we see it, open, black, and emptying our entire volume of blood on the ground. How our conjoinment ends, that is another question altogether. The surgeon—God the surgeon, or Gautama Buddha, if you prefer, the…
Words
Words don’t listenWords don’t talkDon’t do nothingYou write them downThey just kind of sit there Noam GR is a twenty year old well-mannered young lad who enjoys walking that fine line between walking a fine line and not.
Like That
When I first thought of my own death,I had no poems to put it in.Just me and the bed tucked under a cold ceiling that pulled away into black mouths. Years later,I imagined someone’s hands on my hips, my breasts. That scaredme in a different way. The ceiling paused and watched, the bed tensedunder me….