Wild and silent asthe desert of an arcticlandscape, the one eventthat never happens the wayit is supposed to. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters […]
Month: January 2020
Patriotism and Other Myths
At some point, there has to be apoint. A reason why. But what if the reasonwhy is why there isno reason? What if there is nothingbut suffering heroes hopingthat their suffering will makea difference, yet knowingthat it doesn’t mean adamn. They do it anyway. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been […]
What We Need to Dream
sharing the same earthwe share the same water breathing the same airwe need the same soil we need birdsto feel and to loveso little separates us fromwhat we need to dream George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John […]
My Brother’s Knife
Photo by Hunter Jessie Deuel. From Pinterest I still have the fishingknife he dropped offin the parking lot ofthe Greyhound station. An initialed knife with aleather handle and skeletalwhite blade that doesn’t belongto anyone, not even the Marines. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications […]
Alice Walker
She watches the solar systemthe way Galileo didyearning for extinction&fresh as shallots just openedshe writes to change her taste in the world George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall […]
A Mind Engaged
The world may not needmore poems but it certainlyneeds more parks where poemscan be written – the poem here withus, thirsty as the roots fed and a mind engaged again. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s […]
The Earth Is An Ordinary Friend
the oughtness of an ant&the secret codes of Hawthorn treesThe way Socrates said yes to the hemlockshe was an ordinary friend. That feelingof being stuckin paradise George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, […]