Author: Dennis Saleh
Dennis Saleh’s poetry, prose, and artwork have appeared widely in magazines and collections, including Blackbird, International Poetry Review, New Millennium Writings, and Psychological Perspectives, as well as the forthcoming poetry anthologies, Reeds and Rough Places Plain. He has read from his poetry, and a novel in progress set in ancient Egypt, at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California.
The Mask of Narcissus
The world is fescennine and vermilion with dusk’s lurid insistence The chalice of the moon lifts to the obvolute manner of the colors wrapping round into night relieved at last they are gone It is not surprising to find one’s self lost at the skirt of evening fall The moon concentrates one like a mirror …
The Exquisite Corpse
Who sleeps with an angel crushes a feather The lesson of the flower blindfolds in black soil This is not white only silence its memory A drop of sunlight makes a halo on the rosary bead Sea races and dashes the silent statues of days In the House of Strangers the plague of 1000 doubts …