RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Friday, February 2, 2018

HELL

Black snail—lurches
under

staggering
weight of his shell,

softest little secrets—needing
the worst protections.

Posted by Dan Smart at 3:57 PM

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Dan Smart: Dan Smart is a writer, musician, and animal caretaker from Chicago, IL. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ocotillo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, and The Legendary, among others; and his first full-length collection "The Flowers of Nonchalance" was released in April 2023 on Kallisto Gaia Press. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains over 3,000 original poems.

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