Electric Literature

Poetry – spoken word, literature code, less is more

[Poem] Search, by Llywn Black
Look inside you they said, Find what lurks within. Search for what shines inside your head, And for the secrets therein. So I peer inside as I lie in bed, But what I find is only sin. I stare at the void inside me, At where the nothingness begins. submitted by /u/SeaCoast9694 [link] [comments]
[Poem] Imagining Defeat by David Berman
She woke me up at dawn, her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels. I sat up and looked out the window at the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees. A bus ticket in her hand. Then she brought something black up to her mouth, a plum I thought, but it […]
[POEM] Real Estate by Richard Siken
Real Estate My mother married a man who divorced her for money. Phyllis, he would say, If you don’t stop buying jewelry, I will have to divorce you to keep us out of the poorhouse. When he said this, she would stub out a cigarette, mutter something under her breath. Eventually, he was forced […]