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Standing on a crest of sand Among a sea of grains Streetlights within dim Beneath the shadows of buzzards – Staring outward, Inner skylines turn to cartwheeling dust Strewn across the mute dunes In their hellish solitude – The city’s burial is swift Carried off by sandstorms Rearranged and reclaimed Beneath a trail of vagabonds…
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One stray impatient sigh Becomes a sharpened dagger Falling through the void Through fabric and flesh – One hateful glimmer In a hardened stare Turns to burning lead Lodged forever in the mind – One stream of words Grows cancerous in the soul A blossoming shroud Freeing death from its pillbox – One volley…
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Prowling along the scarred frontier Of a war torn psyche Is a trail of red footprints Belonging to no one – Spouts of fire Grow from faulty wiring, In the twists and the snares Of that rusted wilderness – Silhouettes from a dream Glide back and forth Carving effigies of old foes In splintered tree…
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This day is full of hazy notions The heavy marrow in my bones Sends me crashing down Into the freezing muck – Higher ground breaks away With each attempt to rise I backslide through time Still fighting to climb – Full and grim In the day’s downward glare I’m consumed by the chatter Of…
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All along the darkened shore Cold and spare in the moonlight The sea’s lonely drag Births a legion of ghosts – All along the broad shadow Of a boastful city, They find refuge in the shroud Far inside of the mind – Solid palaces of gold Are swallowed whole in the tide Rinsed clean from…
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Clean In the aftershock On the edge of the crater Spared by the brag Of blistering iron – Desolation receives me as I am Torn out of the clouds From a merciful slumber – In the earth’s fresh wound Old roots rot away As I till and I reap From the still-pulsing ground – I…
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Their voices are like coursing water Through the hard scalding ground How they quench frail bodies Beneath the lash of the sun – I chase their crashing joy Their tumbling wrath Southbound for the sea Where they’re remade in its shadows – I fear the mouth of the river The long trail snuffed in…
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Passages of loneliness Burn brilliant in their caverns Striving for the surface From the winding shadows – A frail string of words Breaches through and resounds As a dead language Drowned out Under song bird harmonies – They are lost in these ballads In these colorful trills Engulfed by the haze Of their beauty and…
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New Year’s Eve rises like a pearl From of a steaming bog Its promises gleaming To all the weary stragglers – That pulsing isle Lends a riotous night Of rolling thunder and cleansing rain – Yet its cheap joys rot Once the church bells toll And midnight wanes Into the cold small hours –…
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A sweet and fragrant home Gleams from long ago The lone crackling fire In a wilderness of white – We are miles away In a bleak hereafter Where sparks pour across The ever-widening dark – We are far from the warmth Of familiar smiles Damaged by time Beyond the winters we’ve roamed – Trudging ahead…
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