Welcome to Scorched Feathers, home site for Joey Polisena, Cleveland-area author, performer, and artist. Within these pages, you can read my poetry, view performance videos, shop for poetry merch, and access tools and resources to help you create and promote your own artwork.
Newest posts and announcements
- Off the Path
Dragging shards of my heart across rooted wrists of the forest, birds all singing sad songs under-toe rip me through the chorus, make me mimic the notes yanked through the weeds, the sharp underbrush wrong turn to eerie tones, mud and stone monuments curse what was. I take all my… Read more: Off the Path - Hope Is War
Hope is slow toxic spoonful of sugar candy arsenic sulfur-spark smoke after lighting a wick Hope is narcotic, brain powers, wishes pennies, clovers hope is a charming disappointment Last drop, final thread just wounds and scars left fingertip to ledge last gasp, a breath hope swings and hits - Binding Spells
Are we the alchemy of your stones, blood, and sonorous sorcery? Or are we sixteen strands of your hair wound and nine-knotted around the wish-imbued paper I set ablaze in a rose bed at half-moon? Who is binding whom? Are we dopamine-spiked oxytocin protein-surfing, touch primal? And do we mind-wander… Read more: Binding Spells
From the Joey Poetry Workshop
Shop for Joey Poetry merch made with love and shipped from my home workshop. You can find the collection of new and upcycled gifts and apparel in the Joey Poetry Workshop. For a larger variety of new products, shop the Scorched Feathers Spreadshop, a third-party on-demand merch-maker. Either way, your purchases are secure and shipped as soon as possible.
Joey Poetry socials
Let’s connect. Find me at the following socials and email.
