Poetry by Heath Brougher

               ​William Clifford CC




​Overcome 
 
It’s all bad--
but we can always change it back/
mirror its mutations/
use our primary survival muscle 
to outsmart and finally triumph over it 
in the dampenedsweet euphonyrain 
of our collective Humanitarian hallelujahs 
and yawps of barbaric personification. 




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True Vision
 
In the land of the blind
everyone had perfect vision
though few could Truly see.
 
As the eyeful yet visionless crowd
paraded through the main streets
a one-eyed man stood in a dark alley
wearing a crooked grin and giggling to himself. 

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Heath Brougher is Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press and poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee as well as winner of Taj Mahal Review's 2018 Poet of the Year Award. His most recent collection is "Bleeding Backwards" (Diaphanous Press, 2019). His work can be found in various print and online publications. He hasn't had a good night's sleep in years. He is hoping to get one soon, though.

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