Month: April 2022

  • Decay II

    You can smell the decay, can’t you? I closed my eyes for a second or two and sighed. I kept walking, listening to the soft tap, tap, tap of my feet on the sidewalk. My nose scrunched up as I could smell the rot in my mucus.  That’s you. That’s all inside of you. Your

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  • Sharon Baker

    The world I knew once taught me faith like this: Sit up, straighten up, beg forgiveness before you’re dismissed. An aspirin between the knees or you’re made a sinner for hell, Take a look and see just how far the unfaithful ones fell. This is the weeping willow of my life, Chopped down by these

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  • A Brother’s Promise

    Dylan Brown drove down the interstate in his 1997 Chevrolet C10 with a box strapped in the passenger’s seat. Before leaving his home, he made sure to prevent it from flying around the car when he drove up the mountainside. The hills scattered around the car with bare, jagged rock and long, wavy grass on

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  • The Captain

    There’s poison in the water, Captain says “we’ll still go though” The wind fills the sails, Leading on the captain and his crew. The thunder cackles, The waves are drawing him in. He doesn’t take precaution, He doesn’t even try to win. His ship is going down, And he doesn’t care. He’s accepted the fact,

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  • One

     From the beginning into now, We felt something more, When a feeling turns to passion, Nothing is like it was before. A unity blessed by the universe, As now the stars align. From that day forward, side by side, Your hand intertwined with mine. We are but only one breath, Our hearts beat as one.

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  • What Lurks Beneath the Mask?

     Warm, salty tears, Oozed from their sockets. Wiped from my face, And gathered in my pockets. These tears become ink, Collected for my pen, To harness my truth, For my heart to mend. I am broken down, Shattered in a rainstorm, My truth is hidden, And my face conforms. Tucked away in plain sight, When

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