Olkas 
Literary Magazine

A voice—not another damn voice, inarticulate or not authoritative or thereabouts asks what is the difference between telling the truth and finding the truth between finding oneself and losing the aforementioned self between losing one’s mind and minding one’s losses. J.J. Steinfeld ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Canadian poet/fiction writer/playwright J. J. Steinfeld lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a pho

This absurd descent this dire movement this downward undoing this failure of flight this broken chronology this review of unfinished goodbyes this spectacle of fear this display of inept defiance this inadequacy of words this horrific narrative this crumbling of consciousness one last prayer for asc

A disheartened poet stumbling downward met a man who looked like a poem in a hotel bar in a city that reminded her of forgetfulness. I am here to give a poetry reading and I’m terrified, she confessed building a strange momentum not for the reading but for the remembering of what she had written about like looking at old newspaper headlines of particularly sad events. He begged her not to write a poem about his death as if he could foresee both his death and her inability to