Poetry

You are
my red,
stained
water lily,
flowing
from my wounds.

© Coleen T. Houlihan

 

 

Colorless State of Existence in The Wilderness House Literary Review, June 2006

Of the Ocean in The Wilderness House Literary Review, June 2006

The Elephants in The Alewife, April 2005

Passion in Spoonful, A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, June 2007

When the Firefly Lands in Ibbetson, Issue 20, October 2006

En el Chinga in S.M.U.T., May 2005

The Manefesto in Spare Change News, July 2006

Words a Child Prostitute Might Say in Spare Change News, September 2006

Ode to Life in Spoonful, A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, October 2007

Girls Who Kill Themselves in Spoonful, A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, November 2007

Poetry currently available through online/print journals:

 

I Found Him by the Ocean and For My Children (two disturbing pieces) are in Twisted Tongue issue 14. 

How May I Help You? is in Spoonful. 

Beauty and Beast and What the Bombs Won’t Do are in printed version of Spare Change News week: 5/21/09-6/3/09.

The Confession (a serious rant) is in Spoonful.

Wet C*nt Mama (yes, yes, I know!) is in The Erotic Woman.  Enjoy!!

And I was the Water and She Refuses to be Good are in Clean Sheets .

The Crescendo and Jamaica’s Past are in Mojo!. 

Keeping it Bloody is in Epic Rites. 

Inside can be found in The Abysson.  

Fate and Remains are in Wilderness House Literary Review.

The Confession is in Spoonful issue #3.

The Weeping Willow is in the print version of Bellowing Ark September/October 2008.

Dreams and Death is in issue XXXVII of the print version of Poesy.