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Neighborhood Blockheads

...When a pair of fighter jets
Buzzed over the parapets
They woke up the entire block

Though the pilots had regrets
But still the neighborhood frets
At each ticking of the clock

This deafening...

The Shimmer Beneath

...Rattled into action,
I’m no damsel in a tower.
I’m Sleeping Beauty, grown—
not rescued,
just rested.
Wrapped in gratitude,
a quiet kiss waiting.

So I crush every mistake,
every “no,”
every...

HOT MILK DRIPPING

...Contest : Alice through the Wormhole 
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
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warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand 
wonder exquisite 
                ...

Midway Psalm

...The Ferris wheel, a spoked and sputtering crown,
Pinned back the velvet dark. We paid our fee
In crumpled bills, bought passage to the town
Where gravity forgot to work its shift for me.
Neon stu...

Riding the Rails Alone

...
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, 
The engine is screaming down a rusted track,
Steel hearts thunder, my nerves are blue-black.
Chasing ghosts that never look back.
Flirting with the man in black...

Stillbirth Memories of 1987

...Within my own axis,
It did not slant
It did not drizzle.
The void shunned the grey clouds.
Lightning was rare.
Thunder turned mute.
Leaf-tops shook with the sleepiness of
Shameless drunks, cas...

FAITH IN GOD WHO IS OUR HOPE

...June 28 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 78-81

Key Verse –  Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.

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Your divorce

...With this demand you
 hoped to evoke
in me the fear that
 made even your bones
cold from exposer
 frail and bitter the sound
they made as they 
rattled around at the knees.
But You can not ow...

Juno

...Juno has dropped her Jupe for Janus—
Moves unforeseen by Nostradamus.
Jupiter's lightning rage
Rattled Juno's last cage,
But Janus is twice as dangerous....

Darrell's Daughter

...Written By:  D. Collins 6/4/25


Darrell's daughter has been down since it began.
Showed more heart and courage than any man.
A soldier amongst soldiers who r...

The Gate Sprung, Shut

...
I turned to look back, feeling anxious as I stood
"by the squeaky old gate that tomorrow will find."
Was there someone there watching me?
The gate creaked shut, echoing the taint of guilt
That ...

It Wasn't Amber

...It wasn’t amber.
It was light pretending 
to be amber because
the leafless purple branches
said so—
their shadows crosshatched the window,
twenty-four panes of silence.
Distant shoes whispered...

AH MUSIC

...The music from an award’s show for music
Shatters the peace of a moment’s respite
Words shouted in a rattled cadence
Battle the blaring of the backup screamers
The allegedly soothing refrain chok...

THE PERFECT BUFFET

...THE BLOODY PERFECT BUFFET..

There should be a perfect buffet
A table for men
A happy gathering for them
The murders.... the killers of souls

There should be a table for us
After the long da...

The Starling

...When I was small
the starlings roosted one by one
on grandma’s party line wire
	(like jittery black clothespins)
to bandy their gossip back and forth
until the wire hummed
with their inanities....

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