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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...

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

THANATOS

THANATOS I wish I wanted to live More than I do. This drive To say no to life is sly, Not a drive at all but a stroll A quiet voice whose droll Persistence rises to a...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 15, 2017 in Poetry | 0 comments

GHOST

Ghost I pretend to live When you arrive I sigh We always sigh, hiss and rap On attic doors and in radiators You hear me tap My cold kiss Is not too shy Listen for my...

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 Other unpublished novels include several versions of Endangered Species, a contemporary novel set in NYC in the 80’s, The Last Bender, and The Man Who Can’t Die, a sci fi noir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