Caustic
neurosis of the pantomime
king :: there is not a necessity
in legend :: we breathe
the oxygenated
fiction :: a flurry of
streams mitigating
the gap of the outward
push :: the necessity
of discard is considered the great
lie :: we are asked to
masturbate into glass :: but
these are not our
hands :: the instinctual
tension has drugged
eyes :: the blindness
is unnecessary :: no
one else is motion :: there are no
other breaths mixing
into speech :: the only audible
allowance is force
fed :: we are perpetual
screens :: we are not just
observing
J. PARKER MARVIN is currently a data analyst working in the semiconductor industry and lives in Saitama, Japan. Parker’s poems have been published most recently in Mantis Poetry, Levitate, and Second Factory. Parker’s collection Postlude to the End of is forthcoming in the Fall of 2024 from April Gloaming Publishing.
ROGER LEEGE is a photo-artist and teacher who started out as a painter, printmaker, and analog photographer. Leege earned his BA in Visual Arts and Education and MFA from Goddard College, in addition to subsequent degrees and certifications in Industrial Technology from Central Connecticut State University and Computer Science from University of Hartford. His 42-year teaching career included secondary, university, and adult levels, mixing fine art, craft, and technology. He started using small computers in his own practice in the late 1980s and has been an advocate for digital artist tools ever since. His work is fully-digital, photo-based montage on topical social themes and creative revisions of reality. He has received publications, gallery credits, and awards in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Since 2013, He has been the owner of not-for-profit companies Dek Unu Arts and Dek Unu Magazine. His portfolios can be found at rogerleege.com.