1/6/15

Vox Squad / We Are Fantastic


Daniel Poppick, Vox Squad

An awkward box-set on a neighborhood parole. D-Pop’s bratpack of sonnets beat around the block. He wrings tercets and quatrains from diary rain – wet refrains wax and swan. The backgrounds, layered and strolling, stringed trinkets, jangling paint. Say hey there’s a rainbow rock n’ roll van. So the cops are confounded and the colors are wrong. Royal pain – sine qua non.




Thea Brown, We Are Fantastic

Fast blinking ants. Pep for spectral critters prone to fretting episodes. I can’t but feel my fillings riddled w/ her pretty brilliant threats. The philosopher-poet’s killer metal detector. Everything pings. See me, in a perfect meadow of hotel bedding, wired for the worst. All signs pointing, poignant, lightning.


12/22/14

I'm Your Huckleberry

Erika Jo Brown, I'm Your Huckleberry
Brooklyn Arts Press

How now, chow-hounds. Here’s a splendid kitchenette over- grown w/ innuendo. You and I, chuckle and futz, JK and touché. Like pronoun poutine: we’re a wonder of correspondent squishes. Dueling dishes. The tone switches willy-nilly, room to room, a little touching then much-too-much, poopy shmoopy then pie-in-the-sky. I’m feeling upholstered and swollen w/ luminous bits, bites of “light verse.” She's alliterating vees, cycling-bi, her heart a bajillion kerblooms!