Literary Las Vegas: Peter Magliocco
Las Vegas poet Peter Magliocco‘s latest collection is "Downtrodden Millennium."
Strippers, junkies and former beauty queens are among the stars of Las Vegas poet Peter Magliocco's latest collection "Downtrodden Millennium." The 25-year editor of the literary magazine ART:MAG packs his book with poems in which police cars interrupt nude nirvanas, and the essence of existence is contemplated while doing the laundry.
Excerpt:
Thermal Being
In outmoded caress I see you
For a world given to wildfire
With sanguine lilies entwining us
Beneath the puppet's stray fingers
Catapult me from the piano man
Singing of immolated souls tonight
& weigh all ethereal moments
In barely felt winds of autumn
Memory's first kisses linger
On a child in your god's image
Now ashen with resurrected flame
