New Poetry by Ivan Jenson

Magic Bread

If you think it can 

be learned

then by all means

apprentice yourself

to a local sorcerer

and see if he can

show you how to 

saw your problems 

in half 

or levitate

above your competition

but as a practitioner

of the dark art

of bringing truth

to light by telling

little white lies 

and punctuating 

it with a punch

line to the psychic

groin

I can attest 

to my fakery 

and admit the flat bread

made by my bakery

is dry like rye

and like life

sliced

the first half devoured

the second 

savored and scattered

and what ever is left

is crummy 

and for the birds

that fly out of hats

- Ivan Jenson 2013

Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo, Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox, and many other magazines, online and in print. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for Commonline magazine. Ivan Jenson's debut novel Dead Artist is available as a paperback and on Amazon Kindle and Nook. His new novel, a psychological thriller entitled Seeing Soriah is now available as an eBook or in Paperback on Amazon.  A collection of Ivan Jenson's drawings and poetry will soon be published by Hen House Press, New York.