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Spring's Abysmal Guile

...Spring’s Abysmal Guile
By Sy Roth

A vapor rises, rank as the charnel pit,
a corruption of a miasma vast,
as though some sepulcher, long sealed,
split its stony jaws to breathe.
Vile exhalatio...

Categories: squamous, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Of Feeders and Cleaners

...Grazing upon my hide,
lumbering,
ravenous beasts
farm,
crop, and munch upon
the harvest rich-fields
of my squamous integrum.

The dermatologist tells me not to worry,
that it’s just the norm...

Categories: squamous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Upkeep

...Under new management
his skin became more porous
epidermal squamous cells
more translucent,
maybe he was just getting older
maybe the new governor
of his think-machinery
did a better job of ke...

Categories: squamous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Abscess

...

Simple squamous epithelium
That lines the frothing orifice
Of politicians and wine-soaked braggarts

Cytoplasm
That flows equally
In justice and infectious regurge

Genes
That...

Categories: squamous, anxiety, betrayal, confusion, grief,
Form: Free verse

Life In the Body Temple

...It’s a kind of habituation,?
it’s a kind of a life?
you walk in it, over it?
through it.?
?
What you see or don’t see?
is still all there,?
coming through from the past.?
The future also come...

Categories: squamous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

House Keeping

...After she left the house for realities unknown,
the abandoned rooms hollowed out 
small discrete spaces for her to rest within
should she ever return.

Buses still stopped next door,
sparrows h...

Categories: squamous, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Ode To the Grandkids

...Ode to the Grandkids

My gaze, grandkids, you inspire me to write.
I love the way you laugh, trust and cherish,
Devoting my mind day and through the night,
Always dreaming about the excellent ga...

Categories: squamous, 7th grade, age, beautiful,
Form: Sonnet

Give Me Some Skin

...Give me some skin
(from the sun's point of view)
By Franklin Price
7/26/2017

Give me some skin, this is me the old sun
You may not like it, but you are the one
Chose you when young, to put to...

Categories: squamous, cancer, health, sun,
Form: Couplet

Squamous Last Blurreds

...(At 10:40pm on December 8, 1980,
John Lennon was shot and mortally
wounded on 72nd Street, New York.
Given his love of outrageous wordplay,
this poem imagines his stream-of-
consciousness utteri...

Categories: squamous,
Form: Rhyme

Fighting Cancer of the Skin

...Fighting Cancer of the Skin
By Franklin Price
8/12/2015

Fighting cancer of the skin
for me is number one;
whether from the war in Vietnam,
genetics or the Sun.

Doesn't really matter
Opera...

Categories: squamous, appreciation, health, life,
Form: Rhyme

Midwest Orange White Girl

...she couldn’t get a tan that would make the grade round prom time &
so off to the cancer cocoons she went,
cooking herself crisp & 
as orange as barbecued chicken---
after the prom & all of the 
comme...

Categories: squamous, life, light, light, cancer,
Form: Free verse

Stratified Squamous Epithelium

...i like spelling "i" in the small case
doesn't it make me humble?
yet, do i feel this way
ever?
humble pie ... 
death, destruction, deplorable images
smash your loved one in the face
reality gr...

Categories: squamous, body, history,
Form: Free verse