Month: April 2024
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The Golden Rose
(Cluny Museum, Paris) How weary it must beof remaining in full bloomfor eight centuries, perfectlyerect on its thornless stem.What if…
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Itanos
At the end of the road on the island,indecipherable ruins, the penetratingessence of sage and thyme.You are alone with the…
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Unnameable
On some nights – and tonight might be one of them –the sadness feels as though it belongs to someone else,was…
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The Inaugural Juneteeth Festivity
Freedom, forever a word of ghost stories and rumor hearsay,now was tangible, arriving in the form of men in blue fatigues,who…
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The Drop-Out Drops In
I wonder if they write stories at the Church of God’s Love. How do they remember the hobos who rode…
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Deep Rivers
If you work at a cat shelter, you will cry. You may be the toughest feral who ever gnawed leather.…
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Butterflies and Goosebumps
Yesterday was many years unlivedI spent too introvertedin mental plagues and fast pleasures;little did I feel the summer breezeand yet…
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Open Wound
I am scar bound, this is nothing new. I can slit my throat a thousand timesand continue to choke. People will stand in…
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My Left Hand
Since my injury, I have discoveredmy left hand is still a child.It can’t brush its own teethor wash its own…
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I Grade at the Doctor’s Office
It is December in Alabamaand everyone has the fluor strep throat or a sinus infection.My own throat is raw with…