Daiquiri
Short Story

Daiquiri

A MAGICAL SHORT STORY My name is Colona, like "colony." This morning, I woke up drunk. My eyes are as closed as they are open; it's early.

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Capers
Poetry

Capers

A FREE-VERSE POEM Outcast in reign and serving partnership, Forthwith on valleys of golden highs, Marginal errors in cowardice and family,  Members of the ca…

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Magic
Poetry

Magic

A FREE-VERSE POEM I lighted the surface things Upon a twilight, burnt offerings The fiery, throated parlance Thrown unto verses and flesh-colored signs — I sa…

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Bones
Poetry

Bones

A FREE-VERSE POEM The starry chaparral of your night, The opulent consequences of dredging Thorny moonlight between our gazes Between a slathering of insults…

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Sister
Poetry

Sister

A FREE-VERSE POEM Your cool, locust touch, the green gnarled Hand of your eyes, your gem The pulchritudinous, dude, your mind The insect vibrations of words W…

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Blank Verse #6
Poetry

Blank Verse #6

A BLANK-VERSE POEM A dime, a soul in blackness is its name. The inky spleen attracts passive sanctity; The hole, a thing not round, but stuck in deafness, A…

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Germany
Sonnets

Germany

A SONNET A child’s tapestry, I remember   I doused it with gasoline,   Burned it—ashes meant to be forgiven;   Under the forgiveness growled remorse

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Maryland
Sonnets

Maryland

A SONNET Here, my father (not) died on a Sunday,    On a day I can remember , longing ;    We lived lives of fire and plenty , sadly —    Loving—it was a sin…

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Six-Word Story: Fairytale 5
Six-Word Story

Six-Word Story: Fairytale 5

A SIX-WORD STORY Evil gnomes hate miraculous, magnificent tomes.

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Philadelphia
Sonnets

Philadelphia

A SONNET   Mother, of course, it begins with Mother;    I was the first-born there;    Intertw ined , inter mingled, our tree, hazy,    Difficult to bear, face…

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Things People Have Said to Me: 3
Things People Have Said to Me

Things People Have Said to Me: 3

Me: "I didn't want to be out on the street outside in the cold." Return: "But, you were already going to be outside in the cold."

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Things People Have Said to Me: 2
Things People Have Said to Me

Things People Have Said to Me: 2

You wondered if I would like you, I more than like you.  I love you.  I love you with every part of me in the sky, in my mind, and in my soul wherever it is.…

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Things People Have Said To Me: 1
Things People Have Said to Me

Things People Have Said To Me: 1

It's like I've thought of something like this before, Not with you, but not without you. D.

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Memory
Poetry

Memory

A FREE-VERSE POEM Witches in the moonlight burned In the near-Autumn gesture Of the morning tide above the wheel-rimmed Glasses I wore, not to church, But…

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Haiku 4
Poetry

Haiku 4

A HAIKU POEM Trill, a sound like snow In fragile mathematics, A bow on a string.

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Haiku 3
Poetry

Haiku 3

A HAIKU POEM Orange sky like juice, Tequila sunrise, a geist Screaming, a tempest.

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Haiku 2
Poetry

Haiku 2

A HAIKU POEM Golden song of morn Left ringing in the daylight A dead Mercury.

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Haiku 1
Poetry

Haiku 1

A HAIKU POEM Bluest bird, I hear Singing in the atmosphere A white symphony.

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The Gemstone
Short Story

The Gemstone

A SHORT STORY I saw the building’s facade and bent my head back to find its apex. I don’t know why. The sun flooded into my eyes—blinding me for a moment. I r…

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A Month of Milk
Short Story

A Month of Milk

A SHORT STORY 1902   Ebatha Snoke  moved slowly and with conviction as she walked toward the door to her small barn; it was swollen, creaking with weight.  Ea…

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