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Poetry

My Introduction to Leonard Cohen by Michael Berton

I’m twenty-two, working poverty’s wage, intellectually curious, full of Tex/Mex chicanery, while branching out in the D/FW metroplex Bible Belt watching slam dancers protest with their bodies at the 1984 Republican Convention. I sleep on couches or a bouncy air mattress supplied by the Red Cross. This is after the unforgettable fire burning off those youthful transgressions and immature ejaculations. Hangouts like Skippy’s Mistake, a … Continue reading My Introduction to Leonard Cohen by Michael Berton

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Fiction

Last Night of Verse by Michael Berton

 The microphone hums. Its shadow flutters on the page, a circumlunar echo resonates emanating from the readers printed word, calibrated rolling redolent off the tongue, quenches the mouth. Moist to the ears, the chug of the last train that night for the West Coast pulled in all debris of sound. Along with the waitress’ last call for service among a scattered dozen remaining on the bougainvillea-filled patio. … Continue reading Last Night of Verse by Michael Berton

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Poetry

Modeling on the Spanish Steps by Michael Berton

next to the Keats Shelley museum of literary manuscripts bacchanalia memoirs John’s death mask and bandages Byron wore through Italy into a Greek uprising history’s last stand of warrior king poets who once portrayed the persona in a careless bravado their breath on the page attracted what critics of leisure have ruminated about while literary egos straddle borders revolution foments Continue reading Modeling on the Spanish Steps by Michael Berton

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