Jason E Coombs
His poetry, news, his readings and thoughts
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a draft… It was not a question of not having domination over either of your languagesto dance under a setting soundtrack of sunlight. Not hearing how Tom Jobim embraces the way you love may be why only your lips puckeraround pure cacao from a farm in Ilhéus while I sip on the collective sour of…
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There is a spot where the Atlantic curvesonto the rocks beside the beach when it breaks. There are many of these spots I am sure. I am referring to the one place, the one in time when friends are the waves that crash around your island at the pointwhere your lighthouse needs a keeper and…
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…will it be said again? you broke up –or they broke up,it broke, orwe broke up; the inky tears imbued my pillow, and you.… Jason E. Coombs That is an excerpt from a poem of mine titled “Zeugma“, published by Sledgehammer Literary Journal back in April, 2021.
