Tuesday, 5 May 2026

2 Poems by Scott Thomas Outlar

Kinetic Mojo Machine

The point of poetry
is to release the kraken

universal emotion
sucker punched in the toothache

clobber smacked
upside the holy hour

I want to taste
your full moon

shining outside the covers
of sheathes and veils

This is where we draw the line
between the etch and sketch of happiness

all up and down the mountain
scrawled on cave walls


Entropy Upon Us

complete disorientation
of cosmic stasis

a tragedy of promise in the making

the sun in fifth trigger
snake as shed orbit

the edge of a crisis
diverted before sublimation


Bionote

Scott Thomas Outlar originally hails from Lilburn, Georgia. He now resides and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019-2023 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. Selections of his poetry have been translated and published in 15 languages. More about Outlar's work can be found at 17Numa.com.

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