August Featured Poet: Carl Kaucher

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