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joseph m. gant

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Joseph M. Gant is a scientific glassblower by trade but a writer by passion. His work has appeared widely in the independent, academic, and commercial press.

Joseph lives in the Philadelphia area where he edits poetry for Sex And Murder Magazine and writes reviews for Outsider Writers Collective. His first full-length collection of poetry, Zero Division, is forthcoming with Rebel Satori Press.

He's also been kind enough to share three poems with Ad Hominem: "Winter Comes," "Resignation," and "Travel Agents."

 

winter comes

the dead no longer
theorize joy.

the ground is certain,
and entertains

neither toils of skeptics, 
nor strife of believers.




resignation

we were disciplined  
for waking 
in the infancy of realization 
and so turned our eyes  
again 
toward the vast  
and caring arms 
of ignorance  
that spread  
from dawn's beguiling rays 
so wrapped in soft and cotton darkness. 
because dreams were always lies 
and we were bright enough 
to know this--  
but lies delivered, labeled, forward 
cast integrity, 
not shadows 
where punishment disguised




travel agents

train wrecks piled on the porch, 
dead passengers going nowhere— 
I light a cigarette and measure out 
the symmetry of steel 
and all the signs that pointed here. 
we were all aboard and validated. 
rails and ties and heads of steam, 
the sluggish turning wheels continue. 
and I drink to those who made it thus, 
cadaverous and satisfied 
as we conduct ourselves again, 
unfit to join the graves we’ve made.

Ad Hominem Art and Literature Review. 2011.
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