mkerste | Escape Into Life

March 9th, 2010

Tags/Nicelle Davis, Poetry Posted by Mark Kerstetter

kiss me like a cab driver all fury and fumes consider the meter its hard click we've crossed into another borough all heart-stopped

When she knew you were in her,
she clawed off her skin and lay

March 2nd, 2010

Have you noticed how when you see two people talking anywhere in the world, one is almost always smiling?

We spill ourselves all over ourselves—our excess light

March 1st, 2010

Tags/Poetry, San Francisco, William Taylor Jr. Posted by Mark Kerstetter

If you want to discover your mind burn your house to the ground

A nameless afternoon
in a small San Francisco
apartment

February 20th, 2010

Tags/Ernest Williamson III, Poetry Posted by Mark Kerstetter

i entered the sanctuary of your still life, driven by the mind i left twitching in the gutter.

every day Sarah gave thanks
for the embalmed words
of her childhood

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