New! Juliet Cook's poem "Some of the Dolls Hide in the Basement" in The Rising Phoenix Review!

"Some of them were thrown down the stairs by others.
Some of them threw themselves down.
Some of them were shaken and dragged

by the mouths of dogs, smell like filthy
dried out saliva mixed with blood stains.
The dolls with eyes that will never be put back together."

part of Juliet Cook's poem, "Some of the Dolls Hide in the Basement', in The Rising Phoenix Review

read more here - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2021/07/05/some-of-the-dolls-hide-in-the-basement-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem "Industrial Carousel" appears within The Rising Phoenix Review!

"Try this pill until you run out of power.
Let your body and brain get used
to this manufacturer’s version of this pill,
and then you will be switched to another
like your brain is just a light switch
like your brain is just a plug
like your brain is just a hole in the wall
hotel room with a bath tub that doesn’t work anymore."


from Juliet Cook's poem, "Industrial Carousel", making an appearance in The Rising Phoenix Review

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/27/industrial-carousel-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader by Juliet Cook & Martin Willitts Jr is up at The Rising Phoenix Review!

The escape hatch is gone
because he removed it
without permission or approval.

within the poem, "This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader" by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr, newly appearing within The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/10/this-rotten-trumpet-is-our-leader-by-juliet-cook-martin-willitts-jr/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "Signs of the New Sun God" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook

"The dead snake skin came back to life and bit me.

It wasn’t a poisonous weapon. It was a form
of unique reconstructive surgery
created by my own mind

or someone else’s."

from the poem "Signs of the New Sun God", by Juliet Cook and  j/j hastain, in The Rising Phoenix Review 

more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2018/05/20/signs-of-the-new-sun-god-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "Inner Slinky by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"My socks are slinking themselves
down into the grave."

inside the poem "Inner Slinky" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, inside The Rising Phoenix Review HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2018/05/10/inner-slinky-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Breast Meat by Juliet Cook

"None of us will win because we're too busy competing

in the latest match that boils down

to who can crack the most eggs,

who can sizzle the longest before we all break."

from the poem "Breast Meat" by Juliet Cook

NEW in the The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/11/12/breast-meat-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Trap

"I want to rip off all my hair and flush it down.
I want to get rid of these breasts.
Purge them out with scissors
and then cover up the holes." 

from the poem "Trap" by Juliet Cook, now up at The Rising Phoenix Review

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/06/29/trap-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Doll Blood Spattering

"Doll cadavers growing mildew for hair,
mildew spewing out their mouths and whose
voice are they talking in now?

They were talking in their own tiny tongues until
those tiny tongues were ripped out
and replaced with more modern doll mouths.

The modern dolls with no genuine voices of their own.
The modern dolls in a popularity contest, fighting against
every other doll. They don’t really care who they hurt."

from Doll Blood Spattering by Juliet Cook, up at The Rising Phoenix Review.

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/06/13/doll-blood-spattering-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - another "When I Used to be a Little Girl" by Juliet Cook

"The basement was a big concrete floor with boxes
and old clothes and unorganized storage bins
filled with letters and ripped out hearts."

from another of Juliet Cook's "When I Used to Be a Little Girl" poems, newly up at The Rising Phoenix Review HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/30/when-i-used-to-be-a-little-girl-by-juliet-cook-2/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "When I Used to be a Little Girl" by Juliet Cook...and NEW FLAPPERHOUSE #13

"My sisters and I picked bunches of the dead
off the ground and formed a mound,
then carried one of the cats in front
of the cicada mountain
and watched the cat eat our offering."

from Juliet Cook's poem "When I Used to be a Little Girl", now up at The Rising Phoenix Review, HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/20/when-i-used-to-be-a-little-girl-by-juliet-cook/

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Also, FLAPPERHOUSE #13, Spring 2017 is newly available today, HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/zine/13-spring-2017/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower" by Juliet Cook

"Sugar skulls turn into embryos.
I shove them down my throat
in order to abort them again."

from the poem, "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower" by Juliet Cook, now up at the Rising Phoenix Review

HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/10/this-body-is-a-blooming-corpse-flower-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Blood on the unpillowed cases!

"I didn’t say the moon was warm.
I said it was a worm
working its way out of me.

Occasionally I think maybe
the delusional sparks of me
have outweighed the good."

from Juliet Cook's poem, "Blood on the unpillowed cases", which newly appears at The Rising Phoenix Review

more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2016/10/29/blood-on-the-unpillowed-cases-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in the Rising Phoenix Review!

"I waited for it to slink its gelatinous slime covered,
menstrual blood colored globular shape
back towards me. I wondered who else was stuck inside

that Blob’s body, silently screaming, but trying
to work their way out with scissors, crayon,
colored pencils and their own words before they melted"

from Juliet Cook's poem "Trigger Loving Blob", newly published at The Rising Phoenix Review!

more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2016/10/14/trigger-loving-blob-by-juliet-cook/

(also, Cook's Trigger Loving Blob #2 appeared in Thank You For Swallowing last week, which can be accessed in the post below this one).