Cerebral Contents:

Update for 05.13.08:

Male Model by Phil Doran

Set to Replay by Willie Smith

Backsliding by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Tree by G. David Schwartz

05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

by Christian W. Thiede

I have vacuumed the rugs,
scrubbed the floors,
washed all the towels and sheets,
yet strands of your blonde hair still trip me up.

When I tossed
our photographs into a box
they fluttered like baby birds
with broken wings.

At night I lie in bed
with open swollen eyes
hug my pillow and imagine
your warmth, contours, and scent.

You are the last
and most legendary
in a long line
of failures.

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Christian W. Thiede is a member of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. He lives in MySpaceland along with his six billion closest friends. Currently, he is enrolled at Goddard College in the MFA Creative Writing Program. His work can be found in the Pitkin Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Bent Pin Quarterly, Harrisburg Review, Fledgling Rag, The Central Pen, and many others. He has two published chapbooks: Gazing Behind My Eyes and Random Poems Now With Homes. For you brave souls, click twice at your own risk: almostuptown.com; myspace.com/xpoet.

posted 01.28.08.

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