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Today’s slurs are like stagnant water Welled up in my skull, Like the full weight of ruin From a landslide’s fury – Like an infernal melody Leagues under my skin, Leaving villages of sonnets To sink away in ashes – These fire-tinged lies Were set long ago, From a fellow voice adrift In a mire…
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The machinery’s red -hot grind Is slowly revving to a stop, Consumed by the grime Of too many summers lost – The glow Of her senseless labor dims, Entangled by the webs Winding over her frame – The swarms of her crew Fill the veins of the city, Her bones left to rust In their…
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He is the ghoul in their heroic shadows A changeling, skulking Through the treacherous bends Of a concrete maze – He is a sign of the times In his woolen black armor, Speaking in riddles When his mind is afire – He is trouble leering back Past their sequined layers, Through the balmy colors…
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Long walks through the morning frost Sit heavy in my stomach As time marches me away From the safety of solitude – Another week turns In the pitch-black stillness As I wait to be inhaled By the oblivion I’ve designed – To live a life filled with greeting And grieving and groveling, Looming larger and…
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Falling out of the morning’s rhythm With a childhood of burdens Tied around my waist As it screams to its demise – My limbs go slack During the steep decline, As a healing mantra blooms Over the desert swathe within me – Falling out of the noise Into a nourishing silence, The heavy past slides…
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Trapped Under January’s cold dead weight I’m alive, in defiance Still afire With love and laughter passed by – In spite of the frozen void Stretching over my mind, The slow creeping devastation Of its crushing solitude – But how can I budge free From this ghost-white reverie And ebb away to be received By…
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There’s motion in the ice Crumbling to a collective rush, Charging out to sea With years of walled-away rage – The river overflows Out of its mountain prison, Sending the walls crashing down Into a riverbed of skeletons – Replenishing the valleys On its homeward voyage Giving back what’s been stalled In the snow for…
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Each year I’m like a sinking stone Among a swell of misdeeds, Weighted with exhaustion As the nightmare’s climb – Cast aside on warm sands To begin again To be claimed by the vines Of the preying unknown – Until the bountiful sea Simmers green with envy, Drawing me into the con Of its calm…
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Words seldom dare to take flight, On the wings of my voice, They hide away in notebooks Echoing in the shadows – In the quiet they thrive With brave and bright colors Reclaiming the years Swallowed whole by sorrow – I sing them out loud In the encircling storms, In the dry and brown swathes…
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The lights of December Hold a strange and dismal glow, As the year’s few survivors Recall the loved and lost – Their colorful nights Ebb and flow into the gutters With the late autumn rain As their cold, grim guide – Warm hearts and full stomachs Wrestle with their bitter grief, For the busy lives…
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