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Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 8, 2019 in Blogh, Poetry | 4 comments

FOR JOHN M.

Death Bed for John M My friend, an old ma Becomes a baby Swaddled in a sheet Pale hairless belly ballooning Blind hands pulling the air Stub of his penis pierced With a...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jul 20, 2019 in Blogh, other poets, Poetry | 2 comments

Peggy Billings

Peggy Billings, poet, activist, friend, in her own words, from the afterword to her second book of poems, Red Rooster Crowing. Peggy died yesterday. She was 90. A dear...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 4, 2019 in Poetry | 0 comments

VIBRALUX

Jenny Mae Leffel will never sing again Her voice is lost in the rafters of heaven Her notes shower the earth with meteors The smoke of the verses rises and tears The...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 3, 2018 in Poetry | 0 comments

WAR

WAR The clowns and the names Run together calico flames In a garden of epitaphs Bowed beneath trees the staff Crooked with notes dead in throats Golems cracked by the...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 27, 2018 in Poetry | 0 comments

TRUE STORY

Visiting Peggy at the Cayuga Ridge Extended Care “Nobody feels any pain”—Bob Dylan, Laureate Sang and Peggy lies at the bottom of a painless Corridor draped in dope and...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 3, 2018 in Poetry | 1 comment

A Message

A MESSAGE What is the state of this unrest? To lie in the dark and rustle To dream and hustle To rise like a wave and crest. I feel its feet threading the sheets its...

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About Jon Frankel

Jon Frankel is a poet and novelist, the author of Gaha: Babes of the Abyss, (Whiskey Tit Press, 2014) and, writing as Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank (Manic D. Press, 1993). Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir set in the same world as GAHA: Babes of the Abyss. All are published in part or in full on this web site. You'll also find reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. Frankel lives in upstate New York with his family and works as a library supervisor.