Attention writers and poets! Bindweed Magazine will be running an anthology of poetry and short fiction, Midsummer Madness, on 21st June. It will be published as a Kindle Ebook, and possibly a paperback anthology (depending on the editors’ schedules later in the year).
If you would like to contribute, please visit the Midsummer Madness anthology page for more details, or our Submission Guidelines for information.
We hope to read your work soon!
Leilanie and Joseph
The Day’s Events
I have a knack for seeing these things before they occur.
I am not bragging, There’s no third eye or
Sixth sense. I just watch, listen,
Replay. Every conversation, meeting,
I am actively eavesdropping.
I have played it over, become surveillance.
As if I sit in an office chair, spinning, a long black
Cylinder shooting down from the seat
Splaying out in four legs, an animatronic
Praying mantis. Multiple screens play,
Like bathroom tiles but with moving pictures
Entitled: The Day’s Events.
Because of this constant monitoring I am tired when I see you two
Together, the looks, the ease, the sudden
Disinterest in your respective partners.
And I wonder if you already now
How this will play out. Or if I’ll have to wait
For the footage to be played.
Eating Feelings
There’s been an evacuation in me.
A case of – It’s not you, it’s me.
Sense has left me, the good old common kind.
And now I am a shell, a scraped out creme egg.
I open a tube of pringles, unwrap a milky way
And it is like relieving toothache by a dentist’s injection,
Wrenching out a tooth from the nerve,
And I am left, slobbering.
Charlotte Cosgrove is a writer and teacher from Liverpool, England. Her work has appeared in Trouvaille Review, Dreich, The Literary Yard and Wingless Dreamer. She has work forthcoming in Confingo, Beyond Words, The Broadkill Review, Words and Whispers and New Contexts 2: an anthology. She was recently shortlisted for the Julian Lennon poetry prize. She is editor of Rough Diamond Poetry Journal.
Congratulations to Bindweed contributor, James Croal Jackson, on the publication of his second poetry collection, Our Past Leaves, by Kelsay Books.
James has contributed poetry to Bindweed and has been published in Issue 10 and Issue 11.
We wish you all the best with your latest book, James!
Scrape the Bottom of the Feet
EARTH
B
O
U
N
D
& down to
drown in
pieces of
self-indulgence.
A pretty insignificant
office party blew
the lid off the
gov’ts plans /
executions /
malfunctions.
No
ATTEMPT
At
PEACE
was ever
M
A
D
E
.
the saddest one
can jump
first.
European Art House Skyscraper
Facile dimensions like comet’s tail
end of the line stockyard crashes
brawlers
bailed OUT, simpering in
wetted state of
bliss
ful
pretending. My moon lacks
hands.
My THUMBS lack infernos. And,
inside a statement,
making amended CURTAINS
ruse meant having to become
inebriated. Alas! Alas!
Poor young cannibal
pretending to pose for
military photo album
curving manufacturing
CRISIS!
devils in EASTERN
European art house
skyscraper
built to reflect
orange. Pardon my
French loss.
Leaving
to regret
PanCAKE
makeUP
tip of the nose
& hesitating.
Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in Train, Fugitives & Futurists, Otoliths, M58, Punk Noir Magazine, Beir Bua, Scud, RIC Journal, Ink Pantry, Streetcake, The Collidescope, SORTES, Prolit, E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, and Fixator Press among others. joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
Congratulations to Bindweed contributor, Ken Poyner, on the recent publication of two poetry collections, Stone the Monsters, or Dance and Lessons from Lingering Houses published by Barking Moose Press.
Ken has contributed poetry and fiction to Bindweed and has been published in Issue 10 and Issue 11.
We wish you all the best with your latest books, Ken!
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