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Poetry by John Sweet

Published by betweenthehighway

2.25” x 56”

Thermal printing on receipt paper

First printing of 100

2025

From the publisher’s website:

halcyon  [14]  Halcyon days, originally ‘days of calm weather,’ but now used figuratively for a ‘past period of happiness and success,’ are literally ‘days of the kingfisher.’ The expression comes from Greek alkuonídes emérai ‘kingfisher’s days,’ a term used in the ancient world for a period of 14 days fine or calm weather around the winter solstice which was attributed to the magical influence of the kingfisher. The origin of Greek alkúon is not known, although it was from earliest times associated with Greek háls ‘sea’ and kuon ‘conceiving’ (whence the spelling halcyon).

     halcyon (14)

and all the boys
fresh out of rehab
except for the
dead ones

except for the ones
we all
want to fuck

except for the
ones
we love

John Sweet sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate NY. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and an opponent of all organized religions and political ideologies. He's down with surrealism and old school post-punk. The entirety of his life is hidden in his writing.