FOUR WAY REVIEW

An Electronic Literary Journal

Author: W. Todd Kaneko

  • TWO POEMS by W. Todd Kaneko

    TWO POEMS by W. Todd Kaneko

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    ELEGY WITH SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF Home is our name for the long dead workshop where we keep memory alive  by fashioning new animals to stalk  the back yard. This is a two-headed cow standing near the shed, eating everything we thought holy. This is an ancient tiger, sabre-toothed and wicked, his spiky tail wrecking the…

  • UNDERSTANDING HEAVY METAL by W. Todd Kaneko

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    Begin with a savage cry,                                                         a spray of cardinals             gouting gorgeous             from gut to tonsil,                                                         from a boy’s lips, glossed in crimson & fire—                                                         teen angst dashed by             bat wings, mouthfuls             of graveyard sugar,                                                         bruise shine & stars— in leather & choke chain,                                                         a boy can separate into             curses a man will one day             remember…