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  • Safe Travels

    Still raw from saying goodbye at the beginning of the month, but it's gotten a bit easier to breathe. Been receiving lovely messages from friends wanting us to know the many ways in which you helped them and provided countless good times that'll last as precious memories. I've been going through letters and photographs and…

  • Too Pure

    In Junior High (ages me right there using that term) we got to do work rotations in the school office. What a lucky day that was when you got assigned mimeograph duty. The cranking of the machine! Silky, glistening paper rolling out thanks to your labor!! The smell!!! Bottle that shit, man. Oh, the soothing,…

  • change is

    it's ok if the songwriting suffersthe poetry stinkssnapshots of flowersboring/blurry/bathed in shitty lightit's all rightthe big red death moonand a pox on your lipsbrings big big changeand change is magicdisguised as one's biggest fear

  • Queasy Does It

    For those following along, My Five Star Heart goes to the work that is fiercely authentic. I like it when My Own Private Icky Button is pushed by bloodlust and love's grotesqueries. Poetry that comes in great gushes and not dribbles. Make your piece so ugly it's pretty by sheer effort. Make me queasy and…

  • Vision

    My problem? I've got too much vision. It fogs up my View-Master. When the little pictures spin so fast I can't tell where I'm at, or what it is I see, I consult the works of others. Stories that germinate inside someone else's melon provide a useful barometer for my foul weather days. Some rough…

  • Shutter

    Driven to distractionOur window looks out over discarded plansClear vision clouded by trialThe scenery changes with each argument Life revolves around a broken ruleThe blue shutter for showDoors that stay shut A cold frame where secrets take root If I read too much into itThe reason does not rhyme Poetry for the pretenderI upbraid your…

  • foliage

    steal the statuesmash it in twokeep the spoilshidden from view blood oath sacrificeprime locationsin the pastfill up fastfoliage grows onforgotten plots each step is the firstDetermineYes Norelieve doubt restore faithfix the competitioncrown the winner break the idolremove all sinwear it wellunder the skin

  • radius

    half the length of inevitability the circle tells me it cannot liesleep repeat awake deplete rotate and designate all that is elusiveto construct meaning is to havean embarrassing human conditionthe radius runs its course whilewe stand watch on the perimeter

  • weave

    it is time to find a new frontierthe old one has beentrampled downbeyond all recognitiona flood of warm regardscannot savewhat has beenswindleddepleteda basket of dreamsone can weaveout ofopened promiseslong since deprived of meaningthe note that hangs on the airis asthin as skin

  • Lunch

    Lonnie loved the perksQuick chickenLunch decisionScorched back burner dreams