Poetry Archives - Page 25 of 25 - Sensitive Skin Magazine

Mastodon Poetry Archives - Page 25 of 25 - Sensitive Skin Magazine

Conquistador

Michael Carter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6lf3VMNIk Copper-green pigeon-saluted Statue of Balboa rusts quietly In the bright California sun; Balboa beach, or was it Coronado? Conquistador blares from a car radio, A yellow Do...

Flesh and Memory

Jose Padua

When I moved to New York I got a job with Nice Titties/Show Us Your Cock magazine. We were the competition and I wrote the captions. Whenever the Village Voice used the phrase “post- modern urban griot deconstr...

Electronic Dialogue & other poems

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

Electronic Dialogue I At my wife’s grave it's changed a lot in a month; someone's planted some forget me nots. It's windy and flower petals from the trees are making pink whirlwinds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bananas

Eddie Woods

The poem "Bananas" is a true story. I was flat broke in Hong Kong, strolling along Kowloon's Nathan Road vaguely wondering how to pay my rent. But also thinking poems. Suddenly this stunning black GI on R&R from Vietnam stop...

Vain Endeavor & other poems

Dan Sofaer

Vain Endeavor It was a vain endeavor. All the plants and leaves Took pity on it as it Hung out in the wind. Princesses noticed its Ridiculous asinine shadow As it hung out there torn For a moment and said Poor, po...

Motor City is Not My Home

Emily XYZ

Motor city is not my home / but I love it just the same Murder city, kill city ok but that’s just one way to look at the place where so much comes from and I know GM should have been allowed to fall but for all the goo...

Charles Bukowski – The Night I Killed Tommy

Charles Bukowski

Everyone in NY is dying of heat; everyone in SF is complaining that it's too damn cold. I don't know, it just feels like one of those Charles Bukowski days... This one's called, "The Night I Killed Tommy". The video's old...

Emily XYZ & Myers Bartlett – Frank Sinatra

Emily XYZ

We'll be presenting a poem from Emily XYZ in issue 2. In the meantime, enjoy this piece, "Frank Sinatra," from Emily and Myers Bartlett, performed at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City, November 14, 2008. https:/...

Downtown from the Avenue of the Americas

Jose Padua

I am not the Avenue of the Americas; I have never been topless at Billy's Topless— no one in Manhattan ever called the Avenue of the Americas the Avenue of the Americas we called it Sixth Avenue. https://youtu.be...