4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
sanitary napkin, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Dearly Beloved
...Dearly Beloved
The hands that cradle and rock little lambs to sheep
With you
The sky is blue
The grass is green
With you, the sun shines in the nighttime
You can say nothing at...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, anxiety, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse
Landscapes
...How happy can one be?
Ofentimes, I wonder aloud,
Taking advantage of my creative licence.
Let me explain -
The filth I encounter in this city:
Stinking garbage hills along the sidewalks,
Bloody...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
Let Me Be, Let Me Bleed
...Drop by drop as my womanhood bleeds
White skirt soaked in blood how could I 'stay-free'?
'Whispers' all around me, all about me and classmates with questioning minds
I ran as fast as I could, leav...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, baby, girl, health, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Condemned To a Fate Worse Than Edgar Allan Poe
...Note to self: Never again read 'The Monk'
by Mathew Gregory Lewis
before drinking myself into a diabetic coma...
...All night long
The Wandering Jew requested directions to salvation;
That i...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, destiny, dream, funny, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Kenny
...He loves me.
He doesn’t see the wheelchair,
the Scoliosis, the legs with Atrophy…
He loves me.
He doesn’t flinch while he cleanses me after using the bathroom,
while changing my “sanitary napk...
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Categories:
sanitary napkin, devotion, husband, inspirational, love,
Form: I do not know?