Paul Ilechko is a Pushcart nominated poet and a songwriter who lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ. His work has appeared in many journals, including The Night Heron Barks, Tampa Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review. His first album, Meeting Points, was released in 2021.
It begins with waveform the ups and downs of it following the ridge until the base shifts and the crest breaks on a rocky shore the beach slides oceanward a shallow decline a memory of words unspoken or actions unseen never to be unclaimed it’s a corpus assembled across time a truism lacking choice where words of forgiveness are rarely… Read more →
He had an itch that needed scratching he told me after this long incarceration even though he reminded me all of the walls were transparently open even though the doors had been locked for as long as we can remember the keys all rusty and immobile and yet here we remain always on the same unchosen side always drunk to… Read more →
The truth of numbers he said is that they can always be replaced don’t tie yourself to the mast of arithmetic don’t pick your way through the boulders and bones of mathematics don’t slide and tumble head over heels down the gravitational slope of calculus it’s all a dream * * * * * * * Imagine he said the… Read more →