May 2018 Vol. III No. V
Not your ordinary poetry magazine!
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From the Mad Mind
of Anthony Watkins
…and now for something a little different!
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Every month, since issue Zero of this incarnation of Better Than Starbucks back in May of 2016, I have used this space to ramble on about whatever was on my mind, as often as not, something not even slightly literary.
I am sure in coming months I will do so again, but this month, we have added a couple of features and I am giving way to make room.
We have a very talented guest editor, Michael Burch, of TheHyperTexts. He is a widely published poet, formalist, and translator of poetry.
And we also have a new occasional feature: a book review by our Haiku editor. The book is Yun Wang’s most recent collection of poetry, The Book of Totality.
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Just one of my poems for you this month, dear reader:
Because there are no cats
I have a dog
because I cannot be far away,
I am here
so, goes the logic
and I stood at the window
and watched it depart
down a long, dusty road
leaving me in this old farm
house of insanity
where the rainless clouds
roll by carrying flocks
of black birds
and the west
makes ready its bed
for the tired dry sun
but logic took my pillow
how will I sleep
in the empty dark?