How to Steal from Rich People by Henry Stanton

Intoxicate yourself with purpose
and leave drunken from
their huge and brilliant puny house at night.
Leave it behind.
Abandon
all sparkling fluids the musical insane laughter shimmering gowns
that clinging.
Back there
behind in the spinning room what remains of who you were.
Follow the path to the retreating beach.
Look the moon
in its brilliant eye my god!
It buries itself in the ocean depths and remembers.
Remember who you are
what remains what memory the swirling foam
drowning
give it all away
sink to that love rise to that terror
and repeat again
a fleeting life in dreams.

Henry Stanton's fiction, poetry and paintings appear in 2River, The A3 Review, Avatar, The Baltimore City Paper, The Baltimore Sun Magazine, High Shelf Press, Kestrel, North of Oxford, Outlaw Poetry, PCC Inscape, Pindeldyboz, Rusty Truck, Salt & Syntax, SmokeLong Quarterly, The William and Mary Review, Word Riot, The Write Launch and Yellow Mama, among other publications. 

                   

His poetry was selected for the A3 Review Poetry Prize  and was shortlisted for the Eyewear 9th Fortnight Prize for Poetry.  His fiction received an Honorable Mention acceptance for the Salt & Syntax Fiction Contest and was selected as a finalist for the Pen 2 Paper Annual Writing Contest.

A selection of Henry Stanton's paintings are currently on show at Atwater's Catonsville and can be viewed at the following website www.brightportfal.com.  A selection of Henry Stanton’s published fiction and poetry can be located for reading in the library at www.brightportfal.com. 

Henry Stanton is the Founding & Managing Editor of The Raw Art Review - www.therawartreview.com.