Cory Messler
Cory Messler has published prose and poetry in Rattle, In Posse Review, Cranky, Re)verb, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mitochondria, Mars Hill Review, 13th Warrior Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Red River Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review. He chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition for 2003, and was recently published by Still Waters Press. Another chapbook, Dark on Purpose, is just out from Little Poem Press. 
Articles by this Author
SIESTA
- By Cory Messler
- Published 02/23/2005
- MaverickMagazine 11
- Unrated
The old women sing of love.
They sing of love.
In the shade a dog checks itself,
carefully, a judicious
tongue. And I am left without
you these fifteen years...
They sing of love.
In the shade a dog checks itself,
carefully, a judicious
tongue. And I am left without
you these fifteen years...
CHILDHOOD
- By Cory Messler
- Published 02/23/2005
- MaverickMagazine 11
- Unrated
Come by this way
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
SADIE SAYS
- By Cory Messler
- Published 02/23/2004
- MaverickMagazine 11
- Unrated
Sadie says: You're not
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
Categories
- Issues
- MaverickMagazine 1
- Feature Poet 1: Ramón E. Martínez
- MaverickMagazine 2
- Feature Poet 2: Martha Modena Vertreace
- MaverickMagazine 3
- Feature Poet 3: Bill Knott
- MaverickMagazine 4
- Feature Poet 4: Henry Oso Quintero
- MaverickMagazine 5
- Feature Poet 5: Mac Oliver
- MaverickMagazine 6/7
- Feature Poet 6/7: Eva Skrande
- MaverickMagazine 8
- Feature Poet 8: Howard Fisch
- MaverickMagazine 9
- Feature Poet 9: Mark DeCarteret
- MaverickMagazine 10
- Feature Poet 10: Allison Eastley
- MaverickMagazine 11
- Feature Poet 11: Aaron Anstett
- MaverickMagazine 12
- Feature Poet 12: Maria Melendez
- MaverickMagazine 13/14
- Feature Poet 13/14 - Janaka Stucky
- MaverickMagazine 15/16
- Feature Poet 15/16: Todd Fredson
- MaverickMagazine 17
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