J Michael Wahlgren has been published/will be published in Snow Monkey, Perspectives Magazine, Mississippi Crow, Cosmopsis Quarterly, elimae, iddie & Beauty/Truth. He plays guitar for his grey & white feline in Boston, Ma where he is the editor of silent actor & The Flask Review. His first chapbook of poems entitled "Chariots of Flame" will be released by Maverick Duck Press in December.
*Ideology
Is where the stars exist.
Not the location- here and now, per se
but in our consciousness.
How to spring into being?
They exist in planes,
like in mathematics- limits and multiplication
within a species- if you’re genes
play the piano, you too can.
If there is a sing along,
and they are omnipresent, wrapped presents
upon a carpet, red.
You too can- be, a constellation.
*Circle meets a Square
The bottle falls out
or is it the bottom?
Bottoms up-
A circle of coffee
where you once were-
I rip off, time and space
as Kant dictates.
What a lovely sense
of pleasure.
*Paul Eluard
The fair river is certain.
Are we in love?
In love, within space-
A written poem out loud-
to a professor.
A gaze upon her face.
Cucumber love refrigerates.
A beautiful color, sequential detail
with chance.
A picture show
she dances-
At best, oranges and olives-
which rush down the esophagus.
Cucumber love digests.
*Deux
The telescope view
on a bar stool-
has come to be descant.
In a rhyme-
beyond all dances,
we rearrange the second chances.
Did you get one?
If not, now is your time.
Get up on the stage,
and rehearse your lines.
*Sleep
In translation,
words do not appear the same-
as if in a mirror.
Do they appear backwards?
The pupil
meets the lid.
The lid
meets shut-eye.