Heath Brougher is the poetry editor of Five 2 One Magazine and the co-poetry editor of Into the Void Magazine. He has published 3 chapbooks, A Curmudgeon Is Born (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), Digging for Fire, and Your Noisy Eyes (both by Stay Weird and Keep Writing Press, 2016 and 2017). He is a Best of the Net Nominee and has had work translated into anthologies and journals in Albania and Kosovo. He edited the anthology Luminous Echoes, the proceeds of which are donated to an organization which helps prevent suicide/self harm. He was the judge for Into the Void Magazine's 2016 Inaugural Poetry Contest and has had his own work appear in The Helios Mss, Chiron Review, Zoomoozophone Review, Word For/Word, Expound, MiPOesias, Gloom Cupboard, Full of Crow, Cruel Garters, Lakeview Journal, Otoliths, East Jasmine Review, X-Peri, Carnival, Red Ceilings Review, Clockwise Cat, Moss Trill, Gold Dust Magazine, Squawk Back, BlazeVOX, Diverse Voices Quarterly, *Star 82 Review, eFiction India, and elsewhere.
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1. Fake Blue Lightning
Greek
thunderbolts
thrash through the air
LIMPID : BROKEN
and broken
again!
navel houses ferment
the static—
to
have to lose
to wash
your hair until it turns
BUBONIC : BLUE
smokescreens
abound
a
pocketful of peeled eyes
SHAM
: WALL
and wall
is throw up in continual omnipresence
OMNI
: PRESENCE
the
presence of perma propaganda
as Juliet
bats her yes eyes
in the
luminous lightning.
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2. A Pile of Dead Bees
Through
the ages backdrop historical proportion
transience
and
gravity tugging away at the skin
heart soul, nah spirit,
now I, I, I,
I,
I, I, I, I, I, uh, I, I,
I, I, in the August of my youth,
have to
sit back and watch Technochracy itself
its entire
idea and soulless ideal engulf the world I, I, I,
I, I
have to witness this for the rest of my life? so if that’s
the case
then this these new technologies need to get a whole lot better real quick—
if not
then Dharma stick that needle in my eye so I can Tathagata Tathagata
Tathagat
Tathagata Tathagata the rest of it away.
