BY ALEXANDER ETHERIDGE
Copyright is held by the author.
Electric chair
desire, bring me
home, the next
world
of burning Eden
Death sentence,
then God’s dream of
paradise, high halls
of meteor light,
other pink
and incandescent
orange
plane, Nirvana
of pure
thrill and pure
word
story of Heaven’s
forest silence,
temple of
solitary prayer,
where my hunger
gives itself to
dying into
love the
revelation of
your open arms,
and your open,
greenfire and
waterfall
eyes.
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Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since
1998. His poems have been featured in Scissors and Spackle, Ink Sac, Cerasus
Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus
Magazine, The Journal, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck
Match Poetry Prize in 1999.