[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 19 of Neon features the work of Rhian Waller, Daniel Hudon, Puma Perl, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Jacqueline West, Raul Gallardo, Shokry Eldaly, Lydia Williams and Heather Bell. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we publish a small donation is…
Month: May 2009
When This Train Comes
When this train comes crashingIt’s okay cause I’ve got Je-sus The lights flickerAnd go dead There’s a woman reading the PsalmsWe’re under 100 millionTons of water, Under 100 hundred million gallons of the Hudson The lights have gone offBut she’s still gripping her bibleIn both hands like it’ll be her phoenixLike it’ll point its nose…
Mars
My brother and Iliked to stand, feet inweighted boots and play catch the easy way, the balls curving slow. We’ve matured since then – he explores while I, laboratory-bound, study the things he bringsback; strange aliens. The best place to throwwas on a moon, withsoft gravity andgentle drops, our claspingfingers firm around the sphere. Our…
Diagram of a Life
There’s something about a man led around by his dick. The arrested, slop-licking gaze, the ever-attentiveness, dick forward–my father is such a man. Maybe that’s why I can spot them, men and women leashed to some kind of compulsion, drinking, say, or eating, or even health. Give me five minutes and I’ll give you your…
Crash
First, there is only a sense of wonder.Simple answers tossed up like dice; who, what, and how lying somewherein the sparkling flotsam of the senses.Their fragments mix with the metal and glass. Vision rises like a radiant blister.The glamorous flash of exploding flowers,gold, pink, and blue, a celebrity’s welcome.Sound will have to be added later,…