Poetry Showcase: Jeremy Limn (March 2023)

Poem 1

We wonder in shadows
of previous lovers.

and the sun drenches our
shadow with memories of
Bruce Springsteen.

And you won't forget me.
And I won't forget the way
you loved me nor will I
forget the way I loved myself.

Poem 2

Subterranean sheets of melody 
hang around your neck 
I can only see it 
nobody else can
and there is a moonbeam
in between us
in between lost memories  
from Nagasaki 
I hold its goodness in my
green tweed jacket's pocket 
with a lapel shaped like
your lips 
I feel it alive 
do you?

Poem 3

A deluge of Bob Dylan as
The next Pope of mankind
And it's a cold February day
and lyrics come when I need
them the most a maxim tied
to my fat thighs and God needs
me, I don't need you, 
and stitched to my neck is you
a straitjacket dipped in aconite 
of hemlock an eclipse of you
and a blue neon corduroy Steinway piano 
bloodshot and alive
today.

Poem 4

I watch my aphorisms like
broken vessels of an unprecedented 
grace I fall into this mire and 
I want to be awake 
but I've blended myself into 
aghast fumes from your displeasure
I won't awaken again 

Poem 5

November is too late
and November was my
new tune 
and my tempest doesn't roar
and I can't find Babylon 
my sweet vagabond is supports 
my misery
November is too late it's a dislocating
my poesia 
amnesia 
my uncelebrated beautiful 
dark.



Bio: Jeremy Limn is a poet in his late twenties who has published three books of poetry, Raining Poems, The Auguries of Lost Lilacs, and The Roses Forget You, his work also appeared in the 2016 July Issue of Infernal Ink Magazine, and the Yearbook for the University of Tasmania 2015, and published twice with Vext Magazine, The Ernest Becker Foundation.  

A Super Poetry Showcase from Jeremy Limn