BLUEPEPPER

Puffer Fish Here we lie abandoned on the beach like deflated balls, ugly as toads. It is a mystery how we g...

Playing to death’s gallery December’s last breath of December’s sun, like us is beyond our boundary’s stiff netting Towards th...

AT THE HEIGHT OF THE RAISED HAND Even the hired clowns never knew what hit them, their tearstained faces running off int...

Resolve Resolve is slightly out of my reach like that lonely cookie jar only accessible by a stool. The stool...

Graduate School in English Wally Sandburg sits across from me at my small round white-topped table in my converted gar...

All Dried Up I an old lady waiting in this parched bed for something to happen which cannot happen. ...

Rape Rules —cursive, coral, massive— the very last thing I expect as I unloose my fly at t...

Beowulf with Dr. Engelhardt When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent D...

IMAGINATION A cool greeting prolongs your day makes the bread taste sweeter, the Matisse "Red Interior" look brighter...

The death of the young prodigy Aaron Swartz is deeply felt at Bluepepper, as all such endings are. He was 26, just about a man in our time...

False Advertising Scarlet mountains in the afternoon. Coyotes scavenging at night. Abrasions from coarse san...

Avoid Direct Heat We toy-men are not mean, can’t help it we’re afloat in plasticine. Tin lake with stale water I wil...

The Morning After When she sees him in the morning he’s all foamed up and in the mirror shaving so she stands behind...

Rich, Adrienne, Tonight no Poetry Will Serve (New York : W. W. Norton, 2011) ISBN 9780393342789 $15.95 US. Tonight no Poetr...

THE JOB Part 2 A 3 panel movie. Cheap Marker on 5x8 Paper 2 minute sketches, late night free jazz of the pen. Soundtrack: Cliffor...

Carnival Welcome to the sacredly profane and always sanguine carnival A bare-bones world made with saxophone...

Bluepepper would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a peaceful and productive 2013. And if you're an Aussie, don't ...

Eucalyptus resinifera in drizzle in humidity i squat post -three o’clock from gnarly ...