Sean Bolton
Sean Bolton is a writer and teacher, living in Dubai, UAE. He has also taught at universities in Arizona, Tennessee, and Taiwan. He have previously published poems in journals such as Prism International, Mad Hatters’ Review, and Sage of Consciousness. His chapbook, A Passion, was published in April of 2010 by Gold Wake Press.
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Breath Shallow
Wish for you wish
incant      I can
destroy by voice what fold
it relapse I follow
the wrap to the outflow.
A foraging this being undone
implant    forest grown
fierce my idyll satyr
celibate     sold out
from under the scar.
Boozing the breakthrough
fletched      to flight
offer a thread of palimpsest
offend         in light
coded arson visitor in REM
I recognized you
unarmored what you are
you remain a panic
of morning a hand in hand
proof of life.
If We Fail
Run out the trend
                              of mourning,
angel murders
and mold in
the grouting.
               We are unworthy
of grief. I want
the vision of
the hanging
                              thief that felt
tomorrow and I
shadow under
soil to self-betrayal.
Hold to the hell of it,
               I must admit
                              I love this worm
and faith is not
belief, faith is doubt.
               Wonder is grace.
Sean Bolton is a writer and teacher, living in Dubai, UAE. He has also taught at universities in Arizona, Tennessee, and Taiwan. He have previously published poems in journals such as Prism International, Mad Hatters’ Review, and Sage of Consciousness. His chapbook, A Passion, was published in April of 2010 by Gold Wake Press.