Paul Sohar |
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The November Editor's Pick Poet is Paul Sohar Please feel free to visit Paul at: sohar.paul@gmail.com |
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WHAT GHOSTS TELL ME Smart enough to pass for normal, A halfwit knowing less than half when the night transfigures slyly when I see things in the darkness I know the world is full of wonders HALLOWEEN SONG when the impalpable and pretending you saw nothing at all, another world that sends you signals The night when ghosts come messing up CHTHONIC DREAMSNo coffin, just dark dirt. Dead. And buried at least Nothing to do. Nothing to decide. But wait! What’s this? No escape. They’ll get me. Better play along with the live Better pretend to be alive. They’ll set me on my feet again. They’ll soon catch on to me. And banish me from the light |
Paul Sohar ended his higher education with a BA in philosophy and took a day job in a research lab while writing in every genre, publishing seven volumes of translations. His own poetry: “Homing Poems” (Iniquity, 2006) and “The Wayward Orchard”, a Wordrunner Prize winner (2011). Other awards: first prize in the 2012 Lincoln Poets Society contest; second prize for a story from RI Writers’ Circle (2014). Latest translation volumes: Silver Pirouettes (TheWriteDeal 2012) and In Contemporary Tense (Iniquity Press, 2013). Prose work: “True Tales of a Fictitious Spy” (Synergebooks, 2006) and a collection of three one-act plays from One Act Depot (Canada, 2014). Magazine credits: Gargoyle, Rattle, Rhino, and others.
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