Three Poems by Heath Brougher

Unconscious Bounty

Bright coma straight-

jacket,, whist-

les gaping agates

free wrist 

spilling sanguine seeds

of humanesque oil,,--

red as fully-blown applefists,,--

thick musclebound fruitmeat

feasted upon by a ruddy populace. 

Mirrors 

Do not

look into

the mirror.

Instead, look

t h r o u g h

the mirror.

A Reversal of the Land Masses

           

A sudden                                                      sea-change and

     the Continents begin                                   to reverse

          motion-wise;                               begin to move

                               in opposing directions;

in flipsided directions;                                   and this is not devolution

          for devolution does really not exist; it’s all evolution;

                        just a backward-looking mutation;

  the land turning the tide of the fault-lines inexplicably;

                the land masses moving in backstep  

                           toward what appears

to be                                                                an attempt                                                      

       to reform                                           itself as

                                     Pangea.                         

Heath Brougher is co-poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Award for Best Magazine. He was recently the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award by Taj Mahal Review and is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. His newest collections are "To Burn in Torturous Algorithms" (Weasel Press, 2018) and "The Ethnosphere's Duality" (Cyberwit Press, 2018). His work has also appeared in Word For/Word, Chiron Review, X-Peri, The Ibis Head Review, BlazeVOX, and elsewhere.