Tipton Poetry Journal – Fall 2020
the last of the white noise George Korolog there are things more hushed than His silence, admonitions beneath the edge of the storm, where each sound had been muffled in fur, where everything ever thought had been removed, where all movement had been restrained to the point where there were only statues left to be destroyed, where flowering had finally ended and the only remaining tongues of dying starlight spoke to God even as He sought refuge from the resounding crash of the final echo from which He could not escape, from which even He could not hide, clasping at the end, bowing His head, hands to His ears, struggling once again with yet another beginning.
George Korolog is a San Francisco Bay Area poet and writer whose work has appeared in over 50 literary journals, including The Los Angeles Review, The Southern Indiana Review, Rattle, Chiron Review, The Monarch Review, Naugatuck River Review, Word Riot, River Poets Journal and many others. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and twice nominated for Best of the Net. His first book of poetry, Collapsing Outside the Box,was published by Aldrich Press in November 2012, His second book of poems, Raw String was published in October, 2014 by Finishing Line Press. He is working on his third book of poems, The Little Truth.
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