AUSTIN'S POETRY
Austin Allen James is an active poet. Austin submits poetry to journals across the globe every week. He is currently working on his second book of poems that he will be presenting for publication in the Fall of 2024.
Austin teaches creative writing at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, and has been with TSU since the Fall of 2012. He assisted TSU in developing a creative writing concentration for the English Department. Austin has taught four creative writing courses per academic year since 2016.
Yes! Watch this space and Austin's social media as he will soon incorporate his poetry into some of his energetic and harmonious art compositions.
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POETRY
Requiem
Cut it off. Watch it twitch. Carry with you that plumb heart. Trace the constellation with a narrow thumb. Can life skim the black of summer?
Requiem
Cut it off. Watch it twitch. Carry with you that plumb heart. Trace the constellation with a narrow thumb. Can life skim the black of summer?
Ocean Queen
amidst a flat rock barrel of sweat, salt and flesh. It is a peninsula, a panhandle, a wing, a tuxedo in the sand- cultivated in human history to satisfy our...
Ocean Queen
amidst a flat rock barrel of sweat, salt and flesh. It is a peninsula, a panhandle, a wing, a tuxedo in the sand- cultivated in human history to satisfy our...
Soft Piano Solo
Her royal sapphire and sovereign, the Great Blue Heron is the majestic hunter of the Gulf of Mexico: a thrasher of toads, rodents and small fish.
Soft Piano Solo
Her royal sapphire and sovereign, the Great Blue Heron is the majestic hunter of the Gulf of Mexico: a thrasher of toads, rodents and small fish.
God-Skin
The exhaust of a sacred viaduct captured on a turntable with one gulp. Skim the daisy- a swallow of the moon and the surface of the starry sky.
God-Skin
The exhaust of a sacred viaduct captured on a turntable with one gulp. Skim the daisy- a swallow of the moon and the surface of the starry sky.
INdent Each Shadow
This is an argument against whacking crowns and gutless sheep.
INdent Each Shadow
This is an argument against whacking crowns and gutless sheep.
Fish Bone Braid
What is a fishbone braid, and how does it relate to the Gulf of Mexico, the Milky Way and other said cosmic, brackish and-or galactic scenarios? Relax the gaze- Focus.
Fish Bone Braid
What is a fishbone braid, and how does it relate to the Gulf of Mexico, the Milky Way and other said cosmic, brackish and-or galactic scenarios? Relax the gaze- Focus.