A Literary Arts Journal
Gary Glauber
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poems
Gary Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist. His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. He champions the underdog to the melodic rhythms of obscure power pop. His two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press) and a chapbook Memory Marries Desire (Finishing Line Press) are available through Amazon. This past summer he read selections from his most recent collection at the 2017 NYC Poetry Festival.
Shadow Foray
World of expectation
weaves quick desire,
renewal of thicket
with green budding
to counter
foreboding’s concern.
Thoughts like bone’s
warnings & declamations
echo rumblings
beneath season’s march.
Silent reminders
appease vile gods;
care as comfort applies
life to life to life.
Wreck
Staring down an incoming wave,
huddling against a savage wind in its wake,
an essential point is revealed:
there is no going back.
Feeling world in a pocket,
black & white stones clack together,
one from Russia’s Urals,
another from distant India.
Their touch, protection
against held release.
Accept this soft ruin,
detritus of wastrel reality,
circumstance of favor detained,
consequence of fate’s misdirection.