Inspired by our contributors and the Lobster Hairdressers
Spring is finally here! It’s time to step outside, enjoy a cup of java or a pint on your patio and walk around in the little clips of sunlight with a brand new hairdo for the season. Who better to draw inspiration from than these trendsetting poets!
Anya Lofamia – A Gaze Catching Fire
How To Style:
1. Apply musical versions of light
2. Turn into waves — harvesting misplaced metaphors
3. Play peek-a-boo with pockets
Susan Charkes – The Ravens Played at Rescue
How To Style:
1. Apply smelted chicken fat
2. Pound it in, grind it down
3. No blaming it on fate
Onnyx Bei – Ripening Cacao
How To Style:
1. Apply the waves of El Rio Escondido
2. Wake with soreness
3. Unlock her longing
Kirby Knowlton – One Summer the Sun Broke
How To Style:
1. Apply pieces of the same fruit
2. Cut with words
3. Imagine wanting to skip the little parts
Nancy Lynée Woo – Ruffled Commotion
How To Style:
1. Apply the gullet, one heart meets another
2. Hit her every day
3. It doesn’t even need mustard
Rae Hoffman – The Harder I Kick
How To Style:
1. Apply the black grit from under
2. Break the lacustrine twigs
3. No one can be saved
Adam Hughes – Domestic Squabbles Disguised
How To Style:
1. Apply increments of cuticle
2. Wet horses
3. The moon is full of ink
Patrick Cole – Drunk in Sunshine
How To Style:
1. Apply secret solar winds
2. Blow all night on this rocked shore
3. The joke drags its big ass all across town
Sarah Ghoshal – The Way the Sky Unfolds
How To Style:
1. Apply chalk and the silly bow ties
2. Fall between the cushions
3. All towns will have welcome home signs
Simon Perchik – A Makeshift Heart
How To Style:
1. Apply stone and longing —each night
2. Find more room for mornings
3. The way these dead hold on to each other…
Paul Nelson – Spring in the Rockies
How To Style:
1. Apply little trout and sunnies
2. Let the sun, the moon lay cold
3. A huge lobster on the bottom
Juliet Cook & j/j hastain – A Conveyor Belt
How To Style:
1. Apply the need to create
2. Reshape it into a bible bookmark
3. Trapped in a snow blower
Jay Sizemore – Before Lipstick
How To Style:
1. Apply a poisoned sunflower’s disc
2. Find that girl who believed in dragons
3. Bandsaw at the bicep
Michael N. Thompson – The Ghost
How To Style:
1. Apply more disappointment
2. Like a land mine
3. A mere glimpse
Susan Yount – The Arsenic Lobster
How To Get Your Own Style:
1. Apply all your guts, all your nuts, all your junk
2. Feed on fire
3. Follow the guidelines
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Susan Yount
Editor & Publisher, Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal
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