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Lire's Children, After the Swans

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our eyes misted white as goatskin

There There There

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i hear the boom boom boom in the room room room

Three Point Back (from epiphanyzine.com)

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“...you should have something moving around here.” Tracey looked around, then said, “Paul, you should get a cat.”

Speck in the Thrall of Cosmic Forces

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Fear the air and fear the fire./ Fear the land and fear the water./ Creation is out to get you, speck,

#5

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and the other guy goes

Only Shadows

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There is a whisper in the shadows

Love Sick

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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.

The Rats

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I climb up on the sofa and stand next to him. I smell something.

confronting the nonconfrontational

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You borrow words from platforms you could never build Borrow morals from a party gone sour

You Can't Always Get What You Want

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I was tired and lonesome when I checked into another insufferable, shop-worn Holiday Inn. It was the only motel around with the internet — dial up only — in that little jerkwater town, Notmuch, Alabama. It was too late for a nap, so I jumped in the shower,…

Rain Song

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Feelin’, feelin’ good, down-fallin’ down/rain, rain, rain came today,/wet alfresco alchemy

Boats for Rent (Thinking About You)

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We're killing off the elephants. We're killing off the tigers. We're killing off monarch butterflies. We're wrecking the coral reefs. Big sad gorillas don't feel at home in their own homes. And all instead of learning to live in some…

Secrets; Opening to "Woolgathering"

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Some of us, however, turn our secrets over in our souls, churning them with the fury of the howling winds of a January night. They are eroded and shaped and fine-tuned with the precision of a jeweler; the deeper and darker they are, the more brilliant of

I, TOO, DREAM....

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A dream that seems Impossible When fresh blood soaks the ground

Psychological Profile for "Joe"

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He boasts of administering regular beatings to his wife and claims that she enjoyed it.

Modern Fable

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there's looks between the covers and shotguns in the drawer

Happy Trails

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"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."

Two More Pennies Towards the Proper Procedure of the Pudding, If You Please

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I always thought I would feel your hand, always, Lay with you as we flew higher together, laugh with You in the little spaces left between certain trees, like tiny blue flowers that only appear suddenly, made secretly Of…

Wavering Faith

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Grady Quail wondered why God didn't just have another son

Pool

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“That pool will be the death of me.”Which Dad said at least a couple of times a week. Ten times the week after he'd read the TXU bill.“Goddamn pump, and that twitchy little Polaris. We should fill that pool with dirt and plant some trees and Asian…

Uniquer Than Thou

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brilliant green eyes

The Arrow

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"Give it to me I said, you dip! Fork it over!"

Filter

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The brain taints everything it brings to us/ with its limited apparatus, its precepts,// all the things it thinks it knows.

Gipetto's Sin

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The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening.

An Open Letter For Zombie Rights

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We are what we are, and that is zombies.

Resolution

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Too often, Calvin's willful head finds its way into his hands.

heart-shaped stones

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heart-shaped stones love, devotion no way

In Search of a Meaningful Moment

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She wheeled more deeply into the office towards Mason’s desk. Keith hurried to the desk and pulled the chair out of the way for her and a sat down next to her. She was blue-eyed, pale and completely hairless, which made it difficult to guess her age.

Leap

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I was driving by with a dampened eye

Song of Unself

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nothing suffices as harbor / but a permit to claw at every yawing chasm