Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words hell and/or heaven, totaling up to 150 lines in length including stanza breaks, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PDT on September 22nd. No PDF's please. Color and B&W artwork are also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Hell or Heaven will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 23rd between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Jackie Chou

The Roaches Are Going to Heaven 


The roaches lay eggs,

making colonies 

in corners, in drawers.


I let them live, 

quiet little souls

bothering nobody.


They leave their marks

all over this earth

the same way I do.


These critters

as deserving of heaven

as are butterflies.


Their insectile feet

would enter its gate

before I ever could.


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