Joseph M. Gant
For Naught
morality is plastic-
pressed and molded,
not like cotton, earth
nor silk. the spider weaves
nature from between her legs;
tenuous as the fiber spun
from fields into the shrouds
all heros and all villains
wear alike beneath the dirt.
forgotten are the titles and deeds.
Bio
Joseph M. Gant is a scientific glassblower by trade but a writer by passion. His work has appeared widely in the independent, academic, and commercial press. Joseph lives in the Philadelphia area where he edits poetry for a Sex And Murder Magazine and writes reviews for Outsider Writers Collective. His first full-length collection of poetry, Zero Division, is forthcoming with Rebel Satori Press.