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Sizzle

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My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine
pulling my head back
She slaps me harder than she should
Her smile slightly offset
My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand
Shifting herself fo...

Function and style

...Haute Couture


                                Leucoindigo she said holding
                                     these fancy blue jeans
                              the pigments a striking ric...

Unintended Innuendo

...

“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause

though we’re gentle, not hostile
we diminished her soul’...

Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum

...
Welcome.
I'm the one they left behind.
An alter ego of sorts—
just the keeper, the inventory clerk,
interim ghost.

New items arrive every day—
spat out from my boss's pockets,
sometimes st...

The Gas Station Paradox

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A woman at the gas station
is unremarkable besides
her name tag reading Clarity 
and her teeth, saying never mind. 

She asks if I need a receipt. 
I say no, like I'm not collecting
evidence...

Picking at Scabs - Apr 9

...—it’s the black boil on bursting, boiling ribs—
on my midleft chest, brewing bungled churns,
[tighteningmybreath], again, again, it yearns,
it begs*, “just one (just two) more (well-earned) rub(s)...

Songs of Ireland

...Listening to folk records in my room all day, 
as a kid, to another world I'd withdraw
to the streets of Laredo, as cold as the clay. 
Later, in music I heard, in pictures I saw,
the Irish roots ...

Idly Fret

...I'm sitting with device in hand, 
Trapped in forked thought,
Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned,
All plot but ought for naught. 

Zephyr-jostled oriel,
Jalousie jingle jets,
Venetian pi...

From White to Brown

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Written: January 08, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
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Fields of snow are starting to melt,
Pristine whiteness turns to brown ...

Serging Through Life's Stitches with Scars

...Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt,
But always, my thoughts are pick-threading.

As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me,
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
Just too m...

Get Ready

...All aboard and fasten well our seat belt
Focus on new flight, trip for new success
Travel light, sit tall, forget fears we’ve felt.

Our past storms and snow in life will all melt
Over dream-clo...

Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...

The World Rescuing

...Written: August 26, 2023
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Oh world, all swollen with pain,
The opulent smell emits an almost harsh refrain.
Languor fil...

Wounded Whisper

...Thoughts regurgitated though repugnant,
coil of self loathing tightens its noose,
venal thoughts a fragmented whisper,
to sabotage, undermine, disrupt,
one’s frail ego under siege,
wounded whisp...

Desire, a hurtling horse on hire

...Man, seldom a straightforward animal, 
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial, 
Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash,
 
And feeling hurt, he nurses hidd...

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