Ace Boggess: Thirty Blessings for Poets
3) May the poem on which you’ve just given up be accepted by the journal you’ve forgotten.
4) May someone quote your work in a movie that has nothing to do with poetry.
Ace Boggess: Ultra Deep Field
“Whenever we don’t understand something, we call it dark.” —Father Corbally of the Vatican Observatory . to free eyes from the keyholes of the skull give them feet for … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Noise
sit by the phone that never rings awaiting whatever silence follows silence a black cat shrieks unheard from the street while a lime-green truck shreds linings of its brakes … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Rocketship X-M
Lippert Pictures, 1950 The more I watch, the less my eyes squeeze with anger at what has become redundancy: man wipes out man- (in this case Martian-) -kind with bombs. … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Like All Petitioners He Must Wait
“…Like All Petitioners He Must Wait (How Many Cups of Coffee in an Hour?)” —William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch Waiting for a screwdriver, I sit at the counter sipping … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: “Do I Look Like I Care?”
“Do I Look Like I Care?” —man on cell in an elevator Under tired Muzak he boasts about infidelity & his lucky double-down bet on a stock … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Four Poems
Ace Boggess is an ex-con, ex-husband, ex-reporter, and completely exhausted by all the things he isn’t anymore. He is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry … Continue reading
