Featured Poet for August:
Carl Kaucher
Carl Kaucher resides in Temple Pennsylvania. He is a poet, photographer, life adventurer and urban wanderer whose words have been published in many a zine in print and on line. He's the author of four books, most recently "Ugh " released February 2024 by Iniquity Press. His works consist of mostly prose poems and photographs accumulated during his journeys walking through various Pennsylvania towns. The writing captures the essence of place while usually encapsulating a brief moment in time.
This
poem is like
the cold stone
of a vacant building
on an empty street
at midnight that
eerily glows
obscure parables
of moonlight
across the vacant lot
before the morning
sun was to beat
proclamations of heat
like Fata Morgana
viewed through a
dirty laundromat window
as insurgent shadows
draped in silence
drift across a
empty can of beer
at the edge of
a parking lot
bordered by
old barbed wire
atop a crumbling wall
lifeless pages
from a book lie
littered on the concrete
next to a police car
idling outside a
convenience store
still the course of time
rolls down one way
streets like a plastic
bag drifting
in a cross current
after a bus passes
a downtown liquor
store
