Two Poems by Sam Silva

MENTAL MUSIC

The brain floats away

on flute and guitar jazz riffs.

Summer stillness wafts!

Keep being mindful

of the egg in your skull case!

Beautiful thoughts hang!

Do not be fooled then!,

Summer is a distraction.

Dishes lie unwashed.

ARIZONA

Those pagan sprites of legend

once fleshly and alive

in their pure passion

full of the fornication of the sky

with muddy clay creation.

Now they lie down dead

or worse than dead

in a Hell made for angels

and those of us with a spark

have fallowed them also

down to ash

and wind-blown dust!

Sam Silva has published at least 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's Ear, The ECU Rebel, Pembroke magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and many more. Has published at least 300 poems in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super Highway, physik garden, Ken again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate oak, and dozens of others. Three legitimate small presses have published chapbooks of his, three of those presses have nominated work of his for Pushcart a total of 7 times. He now has many books and chapbooks available at most major online bookstores and his spoken word poetry is available at the major digital markets such as Apple iTunes.