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...Your truth feels like a derailed train on my backbone and below me, a ravine who knows nothing apart from what has been thrown down her throat. 

The gapped bridge hangs in the balance with centuri...

La Finestra By Giuseppe Abbati

...Giuseppe Abbati did interiors in oil.
The Window, open to outside, remains distressed
With rough serrated edges, checked with voids.
Time dried, these shrunken widths of planks have gapped apart.
...

Resplendent

...I don’t want him ready! I want him resplendent!
                                                 (Movie Kate and Leopold)

R-obbed, his attire, his soul —
E-ventide broods awful choices:...

He Was Right There

...long, but a fast read!



“Grandma, please take us to the fair,”
in unison, the grandkids pled.
The boy was 10; the girl, just 4.
“OKAY! Let’s hit the road,” I said.

The nearest open parkin...

War

...What is a missing eye,
If it is not mine?
Be strong,
It is not cause to cry
Nor an excuse to whine.

What is a missing tooth,
If it is not mine?
Be strong,
For a gapped smile, in truth,
Is ...

Dis Dada's Dutiful Toothfairy Daze

...(dirty dental deeds done dirt cheap,
yet...aye value, treasure, revere...those
loosely fading cutting edge com man 
dubble size memories.)

(Witch role an 
   unavoidable mandatory phase),
tha...

February 13th

...Sharp teeth incising my neck, 
It's uncontrollably going on trek, 
Intimate vampire whom can't be seen,
From his wounded mouth slowly drip my flesh and blood,
Assasination pinned to mortify the e...

Dis Dada's Dutiful Toothfairy Daze

...(witch role an unavoidable mandatory phase)
that nowadays breaks the piggybank 
   like a dropped fragile vase
you most likely nod assent if offspring  grown, 

   or ponder new found challenge ...

False Teeth

...First hosting angels with God and son
Then I'd become a glimmer in my father's eye
Met my mother then I arrived
A babe with NO teeth
At age of three I have some bones
Cartilages harden made of m...

Obsession, a Disease

...Obsession is a disease!
That turns from one person to another.
Ruins one life after another.
Einstein had once rightly predicted
Way back that,
A day would come when obsession
Will make us the ...

Kellyn Hodges

...above named entitled african american orthodontist 
   crowned specialist exemplary de jure by this dad
sans perfecting offset dentition of me daughter – shana – who had
quite noticeable gapped te...

The Empty Room

...his jean jacket hangs waiting on the chair.
				his floor is littered with gum wrappers and scratched lyrics
and crumpled tube socks 
and little pieces of him.

i press my face into his pillow w...

Perfect Night

...Dreamy nights by the river; my hair flowing against the cool breeze
I am embraced with my love in the moonlight.
Gazing at the city lights that reflect in his eyes felt like Christmas.
I could sta...

Through the Field, Into My Heart

...The clouds mirror in her eyes, shivers cascade through myself.
Lilies of the Valley cling to her hair, so golden.
Such beauty incomparable to everything Man itself has witnessed.
Watching this joy...

The Lost Bell

...The lost bell
That never would make a sound
Hopes fade, 
With the 
Tick, tick, tick, tick sound of the time
The temperature of the blood rises
I’m in my bed again
No wonder 
About the nightma...

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