ACCIDENTS ON PURPOSE
By Richard J Balog
Love lions & flaming manes
fields of discolored magik
& my ivy love stranglehold
Spurting sparks, flames of a
lover lying in bed of severed
lamenting flowers
Which in tenebrific stark light
may never recover
O of my spongy brain
& tattered heart
Casting crippled love
& echoes of once, was
O The madness of my disdain!
Plumes of romance melting
flowers of forgiveness I
succumb to her hazel eyes like a succubus, impaling me
w/her her smile, reeking of
fetishism's still sticky on my body, shivering in reflections
of timeless fantasies & terrible tragedies
Perfumed honeysuckle breasts
aphrodisiacs reaping in poisons boiling beyond the pale infinite seasons of
romances blooming like ecstacies, chimerical, pleading
as so I have adorned her mad
mysteries, claiming to have
never told her so!
I am
The Madman!
The Prophet!
The Poet Supreme!
Dressed in my own hubris
& rusting tendrils, blood
filled quills, in which I stich
O I am skilled with anxieties
Dancing in the flames!
Facing the ink the blood the
the magik
Fences or crucified half hearts
lining the roadway
Faded, bleeding accidents
on purpose!
I see her through 80mile glass
O My crumbling skull!
O Weeping razors!
Loving every epoch of your
snow petalled flesh!
Sing! Sing! Sing!
As I die in her sibylline divinity!
Ring Around the Rosie
By Nancy R Peterson
Ring-a-ring-a-rosies
Everybody’s nosey
An issue, an issue
We all fall down.
Living in a bottle of pills
Buried under a pile of bills
An issue, an issue
We all fall down.
At first they think you’re lazy
Then they treat you like you’re crazy
Their issue, their issue
We all fall down.
It’s find the system’s shoddy
Until the day that it’s their body
Ashes, ashes
They’ll all fall down
Nancy is a civil rights activist in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. Due to progressive paralysis from a lifelong neurodegenerative disease, they create art using unconventional materials such as scalpels, prescription bottles, and syringes.
Nattie is a wild artist/the owner of Natties Novelties
Crazy
By Bob Mathison
Things to remember
Things we’ve said
Things we’ve done
I remember most
The donut shop
It opened, it closed
We danced at daybreak
And all those records played
But a dime never played a sadder song
The day I lost you
Johnnnys crib rocks at night
Those plastic keys chime a little sanity
Because every time I look at him
I see you
You stared down the face of evil
With uncertain fear
Of all the heroes ever known
You’re the one remembered most
My soul chases all those memories
Echoes through my heart
All those silly little memories “of us”
Absent to hear
Absent to touch
But my heart always feels
I’m just going crazy
Student voices
“Student Voices” is a partnership between Tumbleweird, Tri-Cities Diversity and Inclusion Council, and Communities in Schools Benton-Franklin.
Chandler is an 11th grader at Legacy High School.
“I create art that expresses out-of-the-box creativity. It gives me such excitement to create something that I don't know how it will turn out. The unknown possibilities are endless.”
Christopher J. has put years into developing and creating his own art style. He showcases his artwork on Instagram and goes by the name hiimboogie_2.0
MyK V. is an 11th grader at Legacy High School.
“As an artist, I create art for enjoyment and to help bring smiles to others! I mainly take part in character design, so painting was a new step I decided to take! ~ Enjoy.”
MAIN IMAGE: Crystal Goat / Sissy Miller