By Thomas Page Behemoth Behold mighty Behemoth Howling in sounds arcane Making the world anemic To its power amain. Its teeth gnawed shade yellow With choleric humour The many souls made hollow In their mandated stupor. However can I portray The disasters before me? The ruins tossed anyway Like an old spent fusee? A spoken … Continue reading The Beasts
Skeleton Crew and Other Poems by Thomas Page
Skeleton Crew The best way to scare someone is to justBeVeryStill. I was cast as a pirateWith burning embers in my beardAnd my hand clasped in a hookStationed with my skeleton crew—A motley crew of six, sparking pink sailors;Deader than a doornailTheir mandibles and maxillas permanentlyFixed in a cackle. I also had a treasure chest … Continue reading Skeleton Crew and Other Poems by Thomas Page
Mrs. Pearce
By Thomas Page In the eight houses I have lived in we have always lived with Mrs. Pearce. Now, Mrs. Pearce doesn’t say much but she always sits behind us at Thanksgiving Or listen to us as we opened gifts on Christmas. No one asked where Mrs. Pearce came from Or whether she would be … Continue reading Mrs. Pearce
Sweet Showers
By Thomas Page When the sticky air boils, sweet showers Pour down upon pilgrims making their way Somewhere as honored as Canterbury Looking for dissenting Thomases true As the horns of bulls parading in Spain. Every season turns as the graying clouds Baptize the pavement in its odor clean Of the pools they pull from—sower, … Continue reading Sweet Showers
Three Poems by Thomas Page
Lascaux Hold my hand against the wall And blow the pigment through the reed Here am I and there us all And everything that you need. There’s the cattle of the plain And there the bird of the sky. Avoid the horns that cause pain And the spots that lie. We’ve been here … Continue reading Three Poems by Thomas Page
Haiku by Thomas Page
A litany of Purple wildflowers on The concrete island. Knights of yore wore masks To protect themselves from strikes From their foes unknown. The rain poured purple— The lighting thunder gray— The sky shaded black. The salamanders Under the rocks with mother— Micro-firmament. The puzzle disjointed— A million bits of soul— Each color indistinct. The … Continue reading Haiku by Thomas Page
Panes of Glass
By Thomas Page Patches of purple and red blossom out Of the curb on the roads bisecting the Forests from the houses both pastel-hued. Nature’s little swatches of the springing Summer. The cloudless afternoon breezing Me by as the trees sway in the wind there Outside of my bedroom window the faint Light mixes … Continue reading Panes of Glass
I Tried An Internet Challenge and It Went How You’d Expect
By Thomas Page Self-Imposed challenges exist in every corner of the internet. If you were to look back, you would find people planking on top of garbage cans, standing still while a camera zooms around them, and, supposedly, eating laundry detergent pods. While most of these challenges exist in tandem with hashtags that are … Continue reading I Tried An Internet Challenge and It Went How You’d Expect
Guest Relations
By Thomas Page Good morning, miss. How may I help you today? I apologize for the wait. Oh, A food worker named Taylor Said you couldn’t get your passholder cup? Yes, I’ll let his manager know But you pick up your passholder cup here. May I see your pass? So that I can scan … Continue reading Guest Relations
Someone’s MFA Thesis
By Thomas Page Pictured before you is a Sunday Chicken Dinner. There are greens, macaroni & cheese, biscuits, and a pitcher of sweet tea. Around this banquet there sits our characters: the Petersons. There’s Adam who is the father. He sits at the head of the table. He works at the swanky office downtown and … Continue reading Someone’s MFA Thesis
Academy of the Heart And Mind 