#16, 2019

Here at last is issue #16, the only issue of Word Fountain published in 2019! The magazine is on a temporary hiatus. Hopefully, we’ll be able to open doors for submissions again in the near future. Please click here to view the PDF version.

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Two Poems by William Doreski

Dinosaur Pants
William Doreski

Put on these pants, run your hands
down your thighs. Like the scales?
Wearing dinosaur pants honors

the common pool of DNA
from which all poetics derive. Continue reading “Two Poems by William Doreski”

K. G. Newman, Consequences of Detatchment

Consequences of Detachment
K. G. Newman

Dinos didn’t read,
and now they’re extinct.

Imagine yourself
as the Bachelor, stoned
the entire show.

The inability to speak,
text or even email Continue reading “K. G. Newman, Consequences of Detatchment”

Jacob Butlett, Two Poems

Pyramid Paperweight
a thing poem for my younger self
Jacob Butlett

On the paperwork the paperweight’s
Your brain in a desert of fire.
Those times you find yourself in tears:

You’re not funny, you’re not smart, Continue reading “Jacob Butlett, Two Poems”

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