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Irregular Margins

...
We brought a puzzle to the cabin,
rented on a Friday-front holiday.
Our tween was bored before we passed the first exit.
We needed the escape—
a break from where we'd been and where we were
(o...

Cognitive Siege

...A fixture of grief,
anchored where memory splits.
The quest unfolds in fog—
no path, just pulses
of unease mimicking direction.

Every thought incurs penalty.
Fear taxes breath.
Dread rewrite...

Still Saluting Putin?

...Will Putin listen?

Siberia gulags glisten

Hysteria seeds myopia

Creeds..deeds feeds dystopia

Crimea bleeds...greed cornucopia

Impassioned stock shock rationed

Shepherd & flock fashi...

Time to Say Goodbye

...The passing of an age.
We turn the final page and close the book.
We’ve cleared the stage and turn for just another look.

The dream has disappeared.
It’s just as we had feared would come to be....

Big Brother’s Fall

...“When the Screens Went Dark”

They said the clocks had stopped at thirteen,
but we remembered twelve.
Somewhere in the cracks between slogans,
truth lingered like a forbidden song.

The telesc...

The number that died

...I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe someon...

Ration

...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...

Ration

...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...

Petals of Pain

...Turquoise tears stain my face
Like violet varicose veins 
Stains of sentimental sensuality
Wrapped in white fears and black feathers

For love has fuschia flown away
Ruining reverie’s red roses...

Coco Tabletop and Grill

...walk the urban sprawl, 
where skyscrapers pierce the sky 
cities bleeding_assoc. 
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee, 
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter, 
within the tumul...

Raised by a narcissist

...Until last Wednesday I never thought 
I'd been bought up by narcacist, the thought made me distraught 
But then the memories flooded back in
A narcissist raised me, now let me begin 

I thought ...

Romantic

...Red wine so fine chilled in our cups 
Only the finest to toast our love
Mesmerized by passion and your touch
Amber kisses rationed can’t get enough 
Teal thrills on the beach in the sand
Indigo ...

scribbled

...
this man tries hard
      with word to weave
         his loves clear worn
   plain ‘pon his sleeve

      not meant as gripes
         midst rationed fears
      but more shall quell
   th...

Faces without color

...I bury my face in my hands to cover the shame because everything was not the same, the spectacular air parade was blocked from the balcony and trooping the colors were searching for their destiny.

...

Cry O Ghana

...O child of Mother Africa
The tortoise is still on the road
Realities cannot hold, dreams dying 
Hopes turn to ashes every day
Cry O Ghana, O Ghana

Rich and green Nation
Shame and poverty clot...

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