PORTRAIT TAKING
The studio photographer's
negatives cut in two
developed as spliced-in-
at random portraits
half-men
half- monsters
all those headless
bodies that have no
idea they must
one day wake
This blog is the successor to the poetry section of the now no longer existing The Argotist Online. Send submissions to argotistonline@gmail.com. Due to the large number of submissions, only those accepted can be replied to.
Poems by Gopal Lahiri
CHIMERA Attachment is our only hashtag. Mordacious comment goes against the limits of tradition, of belief. We are impervious to panegyric...
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THE STUDIO The vista which then opened was one I never could’ve anticipated in the Nineties—the PAFA campus was set as a series of jeweled b...
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FROM JAZZ FINGERINGS #7 Music thread-side marvels way into the practice room of the mind where syllables collide with desire a pearl apart ...
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Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction. Antonio Lobo Antunes, Act o...