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Some recent web appearances can be found here:
 
A new poem at Blue Lotus Review:
 
A curious piece at Eighty Percent:
 
Three new poems in Viral Cat:
 
My interview on internet radio:
 
My video interview (special thanks to Rebecca Tickle, David Tankersley and Kent Hamson):
 
An audio recording of me reading a poem at Verse Wisconsin:
 
Two new poems at Pank:
 
A new prose poem here at Salt River Review:
 
At Camroc:
 
 
Poems at Mannequin Envy:
 
One new poem here at Bloody Bridge Review:
 
At This Zine Will Change Your Life:
 
At Diverse Voices:
 
A new piece of flash fiction at JMWW:
 
A new short story in the inaugural issue of Jersey Devil:
 
At Precipitate:
 
 
Four new poems in the inaugural issue of Kill Author:
 
At YB:
 
A piece of flash fiction at Double Shiny:
 
At Sawbuck:
 
My e-chapbook, here at Right Hand Pointing
 
At Ghoti (along with Mia Sara, yes that Mia Sara:
 
At Hamilton Stone:
 
At Ouroboros:
 
At wtf pwm:
 
At Bicycle Review:
 
At Pig in a Poke:
 
 
At Driftwood Review:
 
An essay on Woody Allen:
 
At Hobble Creek Review:
 
 
At Smokelong Quarterly:
 
At Battered Suitcase:
 
An essay at Cezanne's Carrot:
 
At H_NGM_N:
 
At Barn Owl Review:
 
At Lily:
 
At Apt:
 
 
At Metazen:
 
At Cautionary Tale:
 
 
 

Phoenix

 

 

They’ve piled

fresh lumber

 

in the yard

 

of the burned-out

duplex.

 

 

 

Stephanie Dancing

 

 

 

I was younger. I was half-awake.

I watched Stephanie dance. She

moved like spheres intersecting.

The music was room-size.

The crowd swayed toward me

then away. I did not do much.

The night held terrors even as the

day held back. I only wanted

everything back then. I only wanted

Stephanie to stop dancing, to talk

to me the way angels talk to ecclesiasts.

 

 

 

Stephanie Dancing 2

 

 

 

Let’s say Stephanie Dancing

is a symbol. Let’s say it

represents something like lost

youth, beauty unattainable.

Now, let’s take Stephanie Dancing

and put it on the credenza.

It looks almost jaunty there, a

fishbowl full of diamonds.

Whenever there are guests they

stop and glimmer, oh I see

you have Stephanie Dancing.

And I say, sadly, maybe disingenuously,

No one can have Stephanie Dancing.

Everyone nods, lost in thought.

This is the power of Stephanie

Dancing. This is its Oracular Office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 “Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.”

                        --Steve Stern, from The Angel of Forgetfulness

 

 

 

 

. “Where do we go when we die? he said.

            I don’t know, the man said.  Where are we now?"

                                          --Cormac McCarthy


"Phoenix" appeared originally in Horse Less Review.

 

Other work forthcoming in:

 

Grey Sparrow, Cent, Concelebratory Shoehorn, Noo Journal, Petrichor Machine, REM, Triage, Walnut Literary Review,  Gargoyle,  Word Riot,  Tipton Poetry Journal, Pirene's Fountain, Moon Milk Review, Monkeybicycle, Shalla, and more...

All books and publications by Corey Mesler can be ordered signed or inscribed from www.burkesbooks.com