New from Subhankar Das: By the Banks of the Ajoy, Jaideb Vanishes into the Blue

Cover: By the Banks of the Ajoy, Jaideb Vanishes into the Blue

The VGP Literate No. 8

Neural Piano (for my grandmother, Grace Paynter) You see, her mind was never confined to that room sea foam soothing green gall bladder attacks and projectile vomit no, it moved with music scales sliding sideways was scented all things vernal she sent it beyond that jonquil window where the sunlight was weaker than the pale … Read more

The VGP Literate No. 7

Dimensions greed is a mobile brain parasite bigger than any worm or tumor, but the chapbook factor, magazines— medicine, or futility in paper flesh, the radiant physics not fully x-rayed, expressionless, we tie shoes, and die David Scott Pointer is a friendly neighborhood political poet. He has been publishing around the horn for 21 years.

The VGP Literate No. 6

American Machine   Visionary highways under construction; one nation, indivisible… liberty syncopation bursts forth as a breath guided by gilded ideology; flags rippling in the wind, stubbornly stoic   Emergent sunrise – golden – collapses as webbed corridors form a kind of no-zone reflection, the strangely beautiful gestation of art, cradled, then kindled; brought forth … Read more

The VGP Literate No. 5

Final Goodbyes 1212 Existence is only relative In a far off galaxy, in an ocean beneath a sheath of ice, on a planet that circles twin suns, Vanity Fair’s latest Gaga has no relation to whatever life may be thriving and teeming. An example hounded by the crossing light that shrouds in the darkness as … Read more

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    • Dr. Yogesh Sharma - Two Poems February 23, 2012
      Death -A New BeginningO! Death don’t scare your children,One may doubt the existence of god,But can’t doubt your reality,Omnipresent death is always with me,But I don’t fear the mightiest of all.There is a mysterious door,But where are the keys, nobody knows;Looking impatiently and praying to God,Life keeps on moving and without stop,Age keeps on running and […]
    • Peter Marra - One Poem February 19, 2012
      Elected to the Needlesa room.scene 2.bare.light bulb.the females rest boneless in the boudoir.sound of nails scraping the labeloff of a methadone bottlewhite soiled plasticpale stained digitsfluid orange somewhat palebare.style of forgetting wanting to get thereunblinkingblack felineno opinionsurveyingfood swallowed without incidentvomited back upwithout pai […]
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    • Public Health Proposal by Anne McCrady
      Public Health Proposal What if it was in the water? Hope, I mean--added like fluoridefor our health! It would be pouredinto baby bottles,mixed with formula,so that at an early ageit would become a part of us,stored in our cellsfor later. In schools,it would flowfrom the water fountains--leading teachers to trust studentsto never give up! We would bathe in it […]
    • Sound Byte System by David S. Pointer
      Sound Byte SystemNot more atomic age ink penejaculations from anotheranti-war poem, but Iraq hasfour million war widows, postannihilation nucleosynthesisnot to be found in the sands,and some are forced by sexslavery kidnappings as thenightly news bureaus installnew truth filtration systemssoftware for their computerscell phones, and satellitesDavid S. Pointe […]
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