NVN Extra: Two poems on the OceanGate
TOURIST TRAP
by Chad Parenteau
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Tomb as self made as the men gone deep in depths to witness largest mass of Ozymandias. So close can graze imagined ear where new titans whisper never again and survey land ripe for conquer, tell child bereft of all irony someday this will be yours.
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Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His latest collection is The Collapsed Bookshelf. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Nixes Mate Review, and the anthology Reimagine America from Vagabond Books. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine.
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NO SEATS AND ONE TOILET
by Susan Cossette
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Challenger Deep, Hades Zone— There are better maps of the moon and Mars. Humans like superlatives— Highest, lowest, longest. Hubris. We sit cross legged, barefoot— watching for golden pocketwatches, chipped china and worn shoes, footprints sunk in silent ocean sand.
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Susan Cossette lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Author of Peggy Sue Messed Up, she is a recipient of the University of Connecticut’s Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rust and Moth, The New Verse News, ONE ART, As it Ought to Be, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Amethyst Review, Crow & Cross Keys, Loch Raven Review, and in the anthologies Fast Fallen Women (Woodhall Press), Tuesdays at Curley’s (Yuganta Press), and After the Equinox.