Author Archives: rosspoetvassilev

Days of Cloth

Posted on June 9, 2021 by rosspoetvassilev

by Candy M. Gourlay Thin winter, this year of death –funerals abundant as wild ivyclawing up suburban walls.A starving need is growinglike algae in my belly.I seek proof from death columnsin the Classifieds, like dopeto dull a nagging sensethat we … Continue reading →

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updated links

Posted on January 8, 2017 by rosspoetvassilev

I just updated the links section, resurrecting many “dead” zines using the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/. 🙂

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CRESCENT MOON

Posted on April 10, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Anita McQueen The streets my only escape nonchalant walk at first then running night faces in windows macabre yellow eyes hidden hands reaching somewhere a crescent moon lighting a dancing crowd where the new world begins. http://sweetstreetmcqueen.blogspot.com/ http://anitamcqueenpoetry.blogspot.com/

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Memorial Day 2010

Posted on April 7, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

(for Heather) I’ve never understood the rhetoric of Memorial Day and the honoring of those heroes who gave their lives for our country. Honor the dead, by all means yes, but please spare me the propaganda about how they gave … Continue reading →

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I SLEPT THROUGH DETROIT

Posted on April 6, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Jay Passer I roam the streets in need of a fix. her body is the city, bridges closed, bus lines clotted, power out. I’m paranoid, delusional, deviant, unintelligible, derelict, criminal, shabby, and lost. she is a world paved over … Continue reading →

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The Biggest Loser

Posted on April 4, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Don McIver Videos stream the oil dumping from a pipe 5000 feet below the ocean surface, and the brown, goopy, molasses like substance is scooped up in a reporters hand from the side of a boat. Interviews are granted, … Continue reading →

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Nato kills 100 civilians in Libya raids

Posted on April 3, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/25-Mar-2011/Nato-kills-100-civilians-in-Libya-raids

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Sally

Posted on April 2, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Doug Draime I couldn’t tell whether she was a man or woman at first. I took the bottle anyway. It was four in the morning and the rain was beginning to fall, as we huddled together in the alley … Continue reading →

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with no peaceful resolution in sight

Posted on March 31, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by J.J. Campbell trailer park small white town in ohio a bullet goes through a trailer the police are called a deputy investigating the complaint pulls out her camera to take a photo of a footprint that deputy is shot … Continue reading →

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Unattended

Posted on March 29, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Alan Catlin after reading Jackie Sheeler After my mother died the city cop in Midtown South Manhattan recognized the writing on the evidence envelope as his own, recalled the unattended death crosstown in Martha Washington Hotel for Women as … Continue reading →

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Mostly Basie with a Little Bach

Posted on March 27, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

Whenever I see a new woman, I know I should look at her hair and her eyes and her smile before I decide if she’s worth the small talk and the dinner later and whatever else she may require before … Continue reading →

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new issue of Gutter Eloquence

Posted on March 25, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

http://www.guttereloquence.com/issue14/toc14.html One of my fav zines, I finally found enough free time to check out the latest release! –Ross Vassilev

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Anytime Mintues

Posted on March 24, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Lawrence Gladeview ever wonder who everyone’s calling on their cell phones? suicide prevention hotline please hold [cue cute piano music] please stay on the line your crisis is important to us and will be answered in the order it … Continue reading →

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Deliverance

Posted on March 24, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Gary Beck Puny dreamer of caravans riding the subway freighted with mindless drools dead, but seemingly sleeping, rattle the paper every corpse for stations (time for motions of illusion) come like ermine visions, conductors soliloquy mumbled, then the Canal … Continue reading →

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SAVE THE WORLD PART I

Posted on March 23, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by RANDALL ROGERS LOOKS LIKE AMERIKA HAS GONE TO THE HYENEAS OF MYTHICAL SOCIAL CONTROL LEVELS AGAIN MAYBE BELIEVING JESUS WAS HALF MAN IS MORE THAN PART OF THIS EQUATION THAN NOT. OR, BETTER YET, OLE JESUS WAS HALF WOMAN … Continue reading →

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The horses

Posted on March 23, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Joseph Farley Orwell knew the work horse’s fate, Labor for years pulling wheeled carts And the iron blade of the plow. Old and sick the glue factory waits, While the pigs who run the show Sit on the lawn … Continue reading →

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his heart knows the way

Posted on March 22, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by D.B. Cox — for R.L. Burnside (Bluesman 1926-2005) standing in front of a soundless band dressed in a blinding-white suit a delta angel’s guitar speaks— a timeless language no longer spoken by common man— an indigo solo in free-time … Continue reading →

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bahijra

Posted on March 22, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

pushes a little cart table to table busing dishes. i’ve watched her a thousand times. don’t know why but for the first time i see her as a sexual entity. heavy through flank but a bright kind face she has … Continue reading →

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Kali

Posted on March 21, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by John Rocco After the $30 lap dance the nineteen-year-old stripper Kali told me that the world was going to end soon next year two years the latest and this was only her second night working at the club. After … Continue reading →

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Snow Storm

Posted on March 21, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by John Rocco It’s late: after 3 AM New York blasted on snow all night long covering everybody everything streets cars bars houses buses buildings and the women I know who don’t talk to me anymore. I wonder where they … Continue reading →

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A Novel Observation – American Truth Chronicles #10

Posted on March 20, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Craig Firsdon Today you can walk down any street, cruise any highway, look in any window and see nothing but unwritten novels on the virgin canvas of the human spirit sacrificed by illiteracy and ignorance, epics that would make … Continue reading →

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Uncle Sam and Pol Pot

Posted on March 19, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/UncleSam_PolPot.html

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Surrounding a Nuclear Weapons Plant, October 1983

Posted on March 19, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Mark Blaeuer Scramble to a fence and pasture off-complex: a sutured green, a mask for ICBM triggers (plutonium spheres, each the size of a child’s ball). Nearby, a Sony boombox: World Series, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Philadelphia, despite enmity’s link … Continue reading →

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Internal Affairs

Posted on March 18, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Kyle Hemmings In the underground of a mission-style house of worship, you were a priestess of church bingo fixing all the numbers, I couldn’t even win a free space with a city woman who climaxed like a hyena. When … Continue reading →

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THE SERVICE IS MY ONLY VIRTUE REMAINING

Posted on March 17, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Allen K. McGann Across the table they sat in judgment Of my actions on that day, On a Paradise land, Of jungle and sand, That seems so far away. I was taught a hundred ways To open wide death’s … Continue reading →

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Warped American Dream

Posted on March 17, 2011 by rosspoetvassilev

by Doug Draime No one in my home town knew the connection between Little Richard and Norman Mailer I would listen to Long Tall Sally and the flip side Jenny, Jenny on my 45 RPM locked up in my room … Continue reading →

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