Articles by John Sweet
Poem
broken obelisk
(2018-01-22) poem unrhymed
"...waiting for answers that never came..."
eating the bones of the poem
(2018-02-26) poem unrhymed
"...when you and i were together..."
a gift for the diamond eaters
(2018-04-02) poem unrhymed
"...waiting for a message from the
queen of open wounds..."
poem drunk on blood
(2018-05-07) poem unrhymed
"...when the trigger is pulled..."
invocation
(2018-06-04) poem unrhymed
"...a season of dogs in the year of starvation..."
a merciful fist, an abundance of despair
(2018-11-12) poem unrhymed
"...leave them to laugh at the desert's edge..."
before we found each other, before we were lost
(2018-12-10) poem unrhymed
"...the same mistakes again and again..."
against entropy
(2019-01-07) poem unrhymed
"...why not write poems
while locked in a cage?.."
a stone in a cloud, silence in hell
(2019-02-04) poem unrhymed
"fall asleep with the house on fire..."
gabriel st.
(2019-03-04) poem unrhymed
"...always just enough in the bag to
get you through the week..."
dorothea, painting a mirror
(2019-10-14) poem unrhymed
John Sweet, b 1968, still numbered among the living. A believer in writing as catharsis.
the days too short and neverending
(2019-11-11) poem unrhymed
"...you either have it or you die..."
one of us forsaken
(2019-12-09) poem unrhymed
"...who am i in this story?..."
the uncertain assassin
(2020-01-06) poem unrhymed
"...heavy water of failure,
one grey drop at a time..."
the words
(2020-02-03) poem unrhymed
"...do you believe this?..."
out of our minds and out of our league
(2021-05-31) poem unrhymed
"...keeps waking up in a strange room..."
where we stand, or where we kneel
(2021-06-28) poem unrhymed
"...do you really need reasons for
your actions..."
we can crucify tomorrow
(2021-07-26) poem unrhymed
"...clinging tight to
our prejudices and petty hatreds..."
one from the dark ages, late summer
(2021-08-23) poem unrhymed
"...he
says he's got a trailer out on cemetery road..."
together we are
(2021-09-20) poem unrhymed
"...and no one here in love..."
[because we all know whose fault it was]
(2023-05-01) poem unrhymed
"...this is one version of the future..."
no fear, only the absence of joy
(2023-06-12) poem unrhymed
"...think about the ocean as it begins to rain..."
the facts
(2024-01-15) poem unrhymed
"...and we were all of us drunk..."
says let me know how it feels
(2024-02-19) poem unrhymed
"...what everything boils down to in the end..."
fanfare for starving dogs
(2024-03-18) poem unrhymed
"...i will always be the opposite of my father..."
dreamt i was the prophet of this new dark age; dreamt i was awake
(2024-04-15) poem unrhymed
"...and always the sound of trains in the distance..."
that first summer after my father died
(2024-05-20) poem unrhymed
"...i didn’t have much to my name..."
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