Bio

mike sluchinski is a past pushcart prize nominee and mixes dada in with ekphrasis and stream of consciousness narrative in his poemtry, cnf, collages, and fiction. gratefullly appears courtesy of el shaddai in the fib review, shot glass journal, literary review of canada, poetry pause, quarterly literary review of singapore, eunoia review, heartwood literary magazine, dublin poetry walk '24 & '26, FLARE: the flagler review, proud to be: writing by american warriors, scifaikuest, tulane review, mantis, south florida poetry journal (soflopojo), freefall lit., pulp mag, in parentheses, and more coming. blessed, empowered, accepted, anointed, mighty in the lord.

crisp
orange
leaves fall
down around me
soft smoke lilts in the
dusk murmurs before dark curtains close around us
i'm holding birch bark pages
and they fold
around summer's
last
breath