Exiled from Stars

By Joseph M. Gant

Offering a glimpse into the fractured mind of addiction and aimlessness, Exiled from Stars by Joseph M Gant hovers between two worlds: the one of certain death, and the unknown, where when the drugs stop the odds of life only slightly improve but the toll is no less taxing and weird. —Joe Clifford, author of Junkie Love (Vagabondage Press).

Exile. A word imperative to understanding they who live in the margins. We are strange people. We are bedouins if not in physical journey then emotionally. These poems deal with exile. Adeptly– what is the sun but a star? The exploration of darkness prevails in exile and the relationship to light– Only via shadow does the illustration have form. —Carolyn Srygley-Moore, author of Miracles of the Blog: A series (Punk Hostage Press), Ode to Horatio and Other Saviors(Crisis Chronicles Press), and other books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebel Satori Press
• Release date: Oct 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781608642380

Joseph M. Gant

Joseph M Gant is New Jersey born software enthusiast, data hoarder, and author of the poetry collection Zero Divsion. His creative writing has appeared widely throughout small press, and his technical blogging has been seen on open source and cyber security blogs across the net. When he’s not busy supporting the EFF and his local substance abuse recovery communities, he is adding to his massive collection of Pink Floyd bootlegs and coding.

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EXILED FROM STARS

POEMS

JOSEPH M. GANT

Rebel Satori Press

New Orleans

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Copyright © 2022 by Joseph M. Gant

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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60864-237-3

ebook ISBN: 978-1-60864-238-0

Contents

Kuddle

Commodities

Snap The Finger

For Anne

Beta

Rehab

Surf

Race

Death of a Geshe

She Stands Lightly

Birth

New Clothes

Pancaked

We Lit the Stars

Standing

Wrong Clothes

For a Moment Eclipsed

Haiku 257

Spring

Astro Phlebotomy

Lying Still

Dust on the Run

First She Cried

Derivative

Wheels

Coup de Etat

Monday

Three

To the Joyful

I Was a Small Press Editor

Stage Left

Inpatient

Lapse

Five Days In

Unborn

Summer Hanging

Short Change

Seepage

Requiem

I Wasn’t Born To Starve

It’s a Chemical Song

Into It

Hijacked Grin

Guests

Finish Lines

Fifteen Minutes

Diagnosis

Decomp

Leaving

Christmas Eve Shave

Carried

Borders of Dust

Borderline Smiles

Passing Checks

The Sum in the Solution

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