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Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 11, 2017 in Poetry | 2 comments

DRIVING INTO FIRE

DRIVING INTO FIRE Driving into fire with my Father tonight The sun like a cherry in a froth of gray The black folds of earth and the hanging haze Of smoke as the flames...

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 17, 2017 in Poetry | 1 comment

couplet

COUPLET I would not drink bourbon If I could drink you my dear

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 22, 2017 in Poetry | 0 comments

VAMPYR

Parasite Speaks Sweet one, hanging in the moon’s eye! I won’t concoct a story about bulls and cows, I won’t retreat to metaphor and allegory. No, lovely teat swaying in...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 18, 2017 in Poetry | 4 comments

Heart Matters

Electro Cardiology She can’t believe the criminals nowadays Are spying inside my body With their camera snake gliding through the portal Its one eye focused on the...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 3, 2017 in Poetry | 1 comment

Apocalypse Poem

APOCALYPSE POEM Don’t ask about The Martians. I don’t Know, just stories About Ocba, A man in space Alive and inert Drifting like a seed Waiting to land In the...

Posted by jonfrankel on May 24, 2017 in Poetry | 0 comments

Writing Novels

It’s my turn to spin, My turn to begin. Sometimes it’s the end Then I bend and bend, The guts and the brain, To wind and wind again. But it won’t still the drum The...

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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 Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir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.