Tag: poetry

Chants, Prayers, Foster

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Chants, Prayers, Foster

The work is inexplicable.

Taking the Long Way Home

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Taking the Long Way Home

Taking the Long Way Home chronicles her mother’s life and long fall into dementia.

A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet

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A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet

Where Oceans Meet is a book of flash fiction stories that read like poetry.

Apple of My Eye

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Apple of My Eye

A narrative persona poem of young love and human callousness.

The Cleaning Lady

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The Cleaning Lady

A poem about life on hands and knees

Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard

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Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard

To a vilified outcast who ricocheted into self-destruction.

The Ordinary Second

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The Ordinary Second

Happens when you least expect it.
The distracted driver blabbing on his phone

cheap vacation

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cheap vacation

A poem about a cheap vacation.

Woman in Phone Booth

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Woman in Phone Booth

Woman in Phone Booth riffs, like an extended sonnet, on an imagined photograph.

One Final Blaze

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One Final Blaze

In all this red gore, suffering
and servitude oozing across

2020 Night Vision

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2020 Night Vision

Tyranny Tastes Terror.
Reactionary Roars Resound

The Heart’s Exhaustion

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The Heart’s Exhaustion

Stripped of all the colors that create me,
Bare as the bones beneath my skin

The Choice

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The Choice

This poem hopes to combine compression with metaphors that achieve a resonance so as to offer the reader a trip into the indefinite.

Pain Cuts Deep Into Our Lives

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Pain Cuts Deep Into Our Lives

There are times when sadness creeps in,
filling the space that love left empty.

Alone Woman

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Alone Woman

A blatant depiction of loneliness, and isolation enmeshed with a longing desire to belong somewhere; even if only for a little while

a matter of taste

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a matter of taste

A short meditation on the chemical properties of chocolate.