On the Spring equinox of 23’ They paid my ransom They said I was free But they lied. I was dead, Because ten days before I’d died. As a rifle muzzle Flashed orange time and time again. Freedom doesn’t come Just because they make you strip And burn your grave […]
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TREE
TREE One tree. Lost in isolation. Remote location. Deserted in sand, forsaken. One tree To cover me With the shadow of an untouchable. What was my rage against that wind? What was my rage against that sun? What was my rage against Isolation? My rage was nothing. I was left […]
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GREEN DUCT TAPE We who’ve been broken, are not easily seen. We are hard to understand We make people uncomfortable. Unspoken questions Beneath standard issue smiles; “Aren’t you better yet? It’s been two years now, Get over your fears now. No more tears now.” Their get-well wishes are for themselves […]
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THE JOURNAL This old journal, started in another life. Yellowed pages scratched with old ink. Words written before I had a child, Before I had a wife. When the smell of Humboldt Was a new mystery in my nose. Forty years separated by one blank page. Between where I jumped […]
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