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Author: colleenflorafiction
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The Seagull’s Harmonica by D.C. Houston
On this walk, as with all days,I move,until the moon,usurps the sun.The songs of life ongoing,do their best, to fill the barren space,you once occupied.Is it hubris,to say, you are the best there ever was.Daydreams of our eleventh hour,what I could have articulated, differently.How life could change so irrevocably in…
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First Fire by Wilda Morris
Maybe rain was comingin torrents, or snowpiled up outside the meagerlean-to the day maninvented fire.Maybe his legs were brokenfrom a fall down the sideof an icy mountain.The woman dragged himto his pine-bough bed.Confined, cold and hungry,he complained as the womannursed their insatiable babe. He drummed two sticksagainst a log to…
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Rapture by Finnley Silveria
there is a short list of things you want right now:rest, comfort,a hand pressed against the small of your backpeace, rapture. but not the kind of rapture folks dream ofno final redemption hereno explosive joyjust his body next to yours itβs funny, youβve decidedthat you seek rapture in the most…
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it should have been a sign by McKenna Themm
what if the velvet curtains startedweepingwhat if the marble statue lifted herfingertips to her cheekwhat if the piano held a lowB flat and wouldnβt letit gowhat if each stone of the diamond necklacesoftened and turnedback into coal. when the woman locked in theyellow wallpaperpushed aside the barsand leapt out into…
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The Dark Side by Tom Corboy
Is darkness onlyAbsence of lightOr individual personaA personal night. Does it gather at duskAnd retreat at dawnOr is it a twenty-four hourCloud that is drawnA personal darknessPersonal absence of light? No amount of sunCan ease the frightOf not knowingIf anyoneβs home. Do you see meAre you entirely alone? Tom Corboy…
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Life After Death by Lynn White
Something has startled mewhere I thought I was safest,where I thought I belonged,so I will follow Whitmanin avoiding the still woods I lovedand the fields where I used to walk.I wonβt emerge from my hometo meet my friends in the open spaces,or hug them and share a coffee,there are no…