Yellow Mama E zine

MIGRAINES

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by Michael Keshigian

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Microscopic migrant construction workers

inhabit my skull,

though their exact location is a mystery,

yet I believe them to be

a nomadic tribe of insolent carpenters

constantly building

in the blood vessels of my brain,

bulldozing platelets,

backhoeing plasma

and blasting capillary walls

from the cranial dome

to the base of my neck

and forward to the temples,

paving and leveling

while hammering mercilessly

in an attempt to reconstruct

my perception,

though they cease their efforts

for a day or two

en route to another site

when their task begins again

with the heavy rumble of work

weighing profoundly upon

my sensibilities,

curtailing my progress

as the constant pounding

begins to create slight fissures

upon my scalp

and a reddish hue

in my eye.

 

 

 

          Michael Keshigian's latest poetry collection, Poems from the Sky, was recently released by Cyberwit.com and is available on Amazon. He has recently been published in The Tipton Poetry Journal, Studio One, Smoky Quartz, Panoply, among many others and has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize and three times for Best of the Net.

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       KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus. 

      Her creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals.

      Check out her latest short fiction collection, An Orbit of Chairs:

https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Chairs-KJ-Hannah-Greenberg/dp/B0CWMMM73T

        Within its pages are two tales originally published at Yellow Mama: "Alive Another Day" and "Light Notes."

     Channie's new art book, Life's Colors, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGCTHJ6Z, just launched (hit "read sample" button). It contains images originally published by Yellow Mama.