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JW Mark
All in static black we scrimp and save
Despotic in our malcontent
For what could be, (but never is) the end
Of hunger, dread and doubt.
Feigning sleep to wake at mid-day
when the sunshine spent (now lost)
We leave in hopes to find a cloudy indecision
black sheet focus/ rain swept fortune
All in torment of our purpose and our course
Wander pathways paved of horrors
Find a someplace white inside she screams
Disenchantment held inside her vowels, she says,
“I think I cry torrential downpours” and
Presumed escape from some entrapment
held inside her mind and treading in misfortune
All is scattered, lost and lazy
JW Mark is a poet living in Sagamore Hills, Ohio. Among the publications to include his work are The Ampersand Review, Eunoia Review, The Midwest Literary Magazine, flashquake, and The North Chicago Review. He is the author of a novel, entitled Artifice, as well as a book of poems entitled Patched Collective. He can be contacted at jwmarkmail@gmail.com
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The Three Furies: Writing with a Vengeance
Sunday, May 15—5:00pm
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 East Third Street (between Ave C & D) #2
(212) 674-3778
A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES
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Known as “the Angry Ones” in Greek myth, the Furies were a trio of vengeful women born from the blood drops of the castrated appendage of Uranus (whose Titan son, Cronus, did him a dirty turn). They were psychological tormentors, the personification of vindictiveness and retribution. In art they were represented as winged creatures wearing nothing but snakes. In this reading by emerging writers Jamey Bradbury, Ansel Elkins, and Thera Webb—recent graduates of the MFA program in creative writing at University of North Carolina-Greensboro—they will forego niceties and read from an unforgiving selection of their latest work. If you’re bored with bucolic love poems, or have recently be wronged by a paramour, this Gathering of the Tribes is the place to savor the sweet taste of revenge.
