Vasant 2025 Poems - Jason Ryberg
Miles
Away
By Jason Ryberg
God’s cold blue
eye
is peering
through the window
tonight,
while the wind
is attempting to squeeze
the life from the house
with its old farmer’s hands.
And still the mysterious
mechanical cricket
turns the crank
on its rusty music box
in the basement.
Meanwhile, miles away
from the once virgin plain
of the page,
a range war is raging
in the canyon
of my skull
and here I sit,
waiting for the signal,
but the lines are down
from the fighting.
Drunken Sculptor
There wasn’t
much to him,
really,
as far as
mass by volume by height
were concerned
(And him always
scrambling,
buzzing,
heaving
and hoisting).
But what there was,
was all steel cable
and steam-driven piston,
a few cast-iron plates, maybe,
and some I-beams
for support,
and of course,
there was that
always fierce
Promethean /
Dionysian
fire.
..
Jason Ryberg from US is the author of twenty-two books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in- residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books.
His work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine, I-70 Review, Main Street Rag, The Arkansas Review and various other journals and anthologies. His latest collection of poems is “Bullet Holes in the Mailbox (Cigarette Burns in the Sheets) Back of the Class Press, 2024)).” He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.. |
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