Twice Curated Poems
A Brief Personal Welcome
A Brief Personal Welcome (A Primer for Reading, Listening, and Entering the Work) Welcome to Horizon Pilot.You’ve been recruited to seek the creative—to take flight, to scout ahead. This isn’t just a blog. It’s an invitation.What you’ll find here is not designed for skimming.These aren’t social snippets or clever fragments.They’re thought experiments in full poetic…
Puzzle Box
Poem: Puzzle Box First appearance in WILDsound Writing Festival The metaphor at work here is, that letters in a panning box, are like ideas in a mind. They are subject to being jostled into all sorts of relationships. It is language and convention that steers them into normal pairings. It is the creative urge that places…
Smashed
POEM: Smashed Faced today with a growing hurricane season, it seemed appropriate that I start off my blog with a poem about the mother of all hurricanes, the 1900 storm that wiped out Galveston. This is especially so, as I have just been thru a few myself, and a good part of the southeast is…
The Curated Poetry of Mark Kessinger
The Curated Poetry of Mark Kessinger ~~~~~ INTRODUCTION HELLO, and welcome to The Curated Poetry of Mark Kessinger. This is where I share a collection of my published poems. I call them curated because they were chosen by others, editors, publishers, anthologists, judges, etc. this offers you confidence that the works presented here are of…