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PoetryGoosebumps
We had goose bumps on our chocolate skin because we weren't well dressed for the weather We didn't think about clothes when we fled…
PoetryI WON’T BE RETURNING ANY CALLS
I sit on the balcony like a droopy shirt and hope that I get assassinated the green SUVS and white mini vans pass by…
PoetryShe looked around my place
and said "Maximalist" as if it explained everything. I gave her muffins with cranberries, pine nuts, rooibos tea and dark chocolate. I warned her…
PoetryReflections
I’m not crazy anymore trying to see myself like you see me. My reflection bouncing off the mirror is no longer the me who…
Poetrywhen he begins to speak
...the long wave swells and rolls towards my shore sound is sucked from air till only the subterranean roar of a distant heart is…
PoetryGraves in the Sky
I know where all the graves lie; those of my father, mother, close friends, acquaintances, some uncles, some aunts. My parents' I visit often,…
Poetryrelativity theory
if you were only as thin as one atom one wide one tall one deep you can bet your atomic arse electrons would still…
Poetrythe floor boards ask questions
the house grows smaller with each step I take walls pinching in a carnival room your chair in its corner worn like a molar…
PoetrySaved By The Spell
A flock of Dunlins startle rushing to rise on a Merlin rumor. Murmuring among themselves when to shrink or swell to foil an intrusion.…
PoetryYour Turn
I let the date whisper through me like slow bullets each year I refuse to count will not say it’s been howevermany years now…
Poetrymetaphorically speaking
"Everything's a metaphor," he said, deadheading the rosebush, thick gloves protecting him from its spite. "Is it?" I asked, "Even us? Are we just…