A finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series Award for his sonnet sequence Bel (Expat Press), Joseph Harms is the author of the novels Baal and Cant, second editions of which will be included in the forthcoming Evil Trilogy: Ades, Baal, Cant (Expat Press). His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Boulevard, The Alaskan Quarterly Review, and The North American Review.
Will she nill she—incorpsed again, facades pilling along the blighted Michigan Ave, floaters pilling from the feckless firmament, warping pregnant sleech exposed the font from which theurgy comes and goes, hebona to behold. Il’s hand passes through the window of her mother’s Oldsmobile and can’t let go the air. She’s out there underneath the pilling suspended. The carlot pennons stop… Read more →
The overpass’ chainlinked fence fishscaled opaline about the trammeled sun. Filmed ’comb. A cell a time allows the isinglassvista. Subjacent tractortrailer roofs contain the golden rings aqueous in their locked extropy. Hypaethral exit extant. Hermatypic whorling clouds earthending sunburnt. From an interstategrotto the white horse triplicates irreal as déjàmoon. In each object a solid flame instantiates the myth of time. … Read more →
A kiddypool filled with gartersnakes in Il’s friend Jon’s backyard beyond her family’s half of duplex. Thumbing off their heads, his eyes on them, Jon’s dad glossolaliaed. The world at once rugous vellum, verrucous coction, veins unpuzzling. It was not blood that issued. It had never been. I’ve seen the great beyond, Il wrote hotelled wellpaid, the couple prepping in… Read more →