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Through pensive eyes gazing at the gaping horizon which sings, I permit the sovereignty of nostalgia to saturate. Contemplatively, I stroll a garden in which roses smile all around me, dripping their wet jewelry gifted by the morning. At the top of a mountain resides a remote monastery sat upon by the narcissistic Sun, depicting…
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Basketball Tryouts
A month into sophomore year,the leaves turn to yellow,ACs off, sweaters everywhere.He watches his neighbors play basketball,searches the garage for even a deflated ballto practice near the pool in the backyard.No net, no hoop, no friendspracticing alone like a dog chasing its tail.He convinces himself he’s going to be a star,he’s going to ace the…
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2 sets of Lilies Soon to Bloom
For my birthday, my boyfriend, bought me two bouquets of lilies. I placed the lighter, upstairs, in our bedroom. The smell of the darker set of lilies, it was muted, But the light ones’ exuded, aromatic perfume. The dark lilies, I left on a table downstairs. Those dark ones’ are torn, visual scars that they…
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Lamadrid
It is despair incarnated; it is disorder converted into sound; it is a translation of anger; it is anguish distilled into a black purity. A raging bull has composed this piece through flared nostrils. Horror has asserted its authority in a land of leaking sewers. This noise has emanated from his skull, a cemetery of…
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My Boy Vagary
My boy Vagary saved me And held me in his arms. I was 17 felt all alone but he was full of charm. Not alarmed when he drank my parent’s liquor. Did what we had to do to numb our open wounds. However we could lose ourselves more quickly. But the pain always returned to…
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Grathaholt & Ever-Grower
Long ago in the land of Asgaard, there lived all of the gods of the northmen in great happiness. Their king, Odin, was powerful, and dangerous, with his mighty spear, Gungnir, and their queen, Frigg, was very beautiful, wise, and deep-sighted. Odin and Frigg had a son, whose name was Thor, and he was the…
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natal: relating to the place or time of one’s birth (the Oxford Dictionary)
didn’t you rip down the front-porch-lavender? the roots could not resist your blunted claws. you left the soil all ravaged and ruptured drenched with sweat and your vaguely-oriental musk like the crows gorging in the undivided fields at the far-end of summer and severed cornstalks everywhere. didn’t you stand on the threshold before the vicar…
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My Husband’s Teenage Daughter came to live with us Recently
When I hated my music teacher. It was so unfair. And I actually love music to this very day, a music person I would call myself. She sent me to the principal’s office for blowing bubbles in music class on my birthday. And I hated her. And this was before she was forced by a…
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Amongst the Gentiles
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?/ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.” Psalm 137 One Every morning I get…
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Summer 2012
He fills withfresh air as sun rises.no school.no job.Just him, his computer.His cousin’s basement.depression creeps in,dark angry cloudsswallow his room,paralyze him till dawn.
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The Bog
Moss-heavy limbs fall from charge of a warm southern wind rest in a compost graveyard of other arms that have been Once boasted of leaves awarded with weighted sog You might pray if awarded knees The warm low water releases a fog Time will turn you into swamps breath and a story told around the…
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Grandma’s Closet
The door at the end of the long hall stands open The third bathroom is in there Sent to the room by my mother’s voice busy behind the door of the second common bathroom, the guest bathroom Go use Mimi’s I obey The faint gold light from a bedside lamp whispers as I step twice…