Article 5

Jeff Harrison

Civil War Prison Rat Call

brother set
against brother
battlefield, first,
and again
at rat call

Christ's martyrs
sawn in half,
were any of you fed a rat?

were I fed on a rat

beaten to death
for a rat, were I sawn
in half, had I put my head
in the cannon's mouth



Up In The Clouds

SCENE 1

               VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Scowl

               VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Smile

               VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Flush

~

SCENE 2

              VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Flush


[ENTER COMPLIANT LIGHTNING]


              COMPLIANT LIGHTNING:

                    Flash

              VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Flush

              COMPLIANT LIGHTNING:

                    Flush, then

~

SCENE 3

[ENTER ADAMANT THUNDER]

              ADAMANT THUNDER:

                    Boom

              VIRGINIA'S MOUTH:

                    Bloom

              ADAMANT THUNDER:

                    Boom

~

SCENE 4

              VIRGINIA'S FACE & COMPLIANT LIGHTNING:

                    Flush

~

SCENE 5

             VIRGINIA'S FACE:

                    Scowl

             COMPLIANT LIGHTNING:

                    Flush

Jeff Harrison has publications from Writers Forum, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from BlazeVOX and Argotist Ebooks. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press), three Meritage Press hay(na)ku anthologies, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Moria, and elsewhere.
 
 
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