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Tatterdemalion Man

Rawboned man, ashen face with flopping green pants Lately, I have been seeing you alone in parking lots Wondering what brought you to your circumstance Fidgeting, anxious fingers pronging newspaper slots Your sullen look, your charcoal under eye makes me

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The Last Tear

If this were the last tear that would fall upon my face Would you catch it and spill it into your distant heart? Could it wash away our sins and make us whole again? Time and weary days of inconsistent

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Unchained Memories

A landscape of clouds Snowy white ice cream treats Shadow walking sky stream Puffy sinking surface Where myths and legends walk Will bring the desert up to See the sky have its needed cry Memories of glass eyes Glaze my

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The American Dream

I am the American dream eagerly searching for a host I am the American dream; I am Benjamin Franklin’s ghost I come wrapped in chains, tangled rope and cathedral high My lack of visibility does not change wherein my content

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The Cool Whip Caper

It was like him to think of practical jokes to pull on his favorite aunt. The two as close as “two peas in a pod” as Debbie would always refer to them. Debbie, a special needs child, was comfortable in

Posted in Short Stories

The Moment We Fall

That bewitching, exhilarating moment of first contact That incredible feeling that just a fleeting second before We were ordinary, now we possess mythical powers Our senses heightened to feel magic when a breeze Touches lightly over our skin, we are

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The Jury Deliberates

100 plus sat formidably with obvious trepidation Barely looking at the defendant, stillness only Questions I answered forthright with queasiness Somehow surprised not that I would be of the twelve Murder, murder in the first, those words clanging As if

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Nirvana, We Are Waiting

You, the elusive maiden, just out of reach Coming in bursts, momentary handfuls A quick taste, midnight hours unleashed So brief your stay, I laugh, the fool Thinking this time you had come to stay Dancing with cocktails of joyful

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Phantom Winged Horse

I am riding into the night on reflective chestnut horse Winged and star bound, my carrier bounds freely Bringing me crisp white paper cut outs of your heart So that I may be able to see into the spaces and

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The Chocolate Bar

It looked at me screaming, “Pick me up already!” its sugary fingers resting barely atop my gleaming patent leather shoes. Its very bigness compared to the other candy pieces—that  alone was startling enough. It was clear that it was meant

Posted in Short Stories