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once wedding cake
under pillows.
now fluffy frosting
on squashed defeat
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Later that night, he lay his shivering children in his own bed, the bed that betrayed and abandoned him just a few years ago. It will protect them now.
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Richard bounds up the stairs to his apartment. He can’t wait to get home to his new kitty. He found the poor cat right outside of his building just a few days ago, and already they’ve become fast friends.
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At night, on these New England roads, there is no light, no pink sodium-vapor glow, no guideposts.
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Only the occasional kindness of a stranger,//
The curve of his back, a slope rushing past me,//
Is luminous, the coin pressed in my hand . . .////
And yes, I beg.////
I open my palm//
As Jesus did.//
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Approaching the kitchen from the foyer the reverb lessened until heel and floor where flint on flint. No spark was made.
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To my right, blank stares interchange with closed eyelids on an unkempt face. The minutes drip into the endless sea of night outside the window, each time creating a deeper blackness.
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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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Alysia stopped for a moment. She knew what she was going to say, but held back her words and thoughts. Chisame took advantage of her hesitance.
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...I grew up in a provincial town which at the time had no bookstore and no library — no library even at school...
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I see those shoes and the status they confer, and I know what they cost.
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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack.
The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,
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this one was abandoned... a splinter left under the skin, pushed out by protective flesh
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but let's stop and take another look at things
could it be through our closed eyes
that we didn't really know what we were talking about
that there never was a surprise
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'Yer a cool, cool glass of water baby....'
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Danica saw her hand with the ring lifted up by Oryn. Both of their eyes locked onto the red gem and Danica understood what Oryn offered.
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Ai thought she was flying at first, but she felt herself leaning on something. Before she could figure out what was happening, her eyes closed again, and had a short dream.
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The voices he hears are God and the Devil and he knows the difference. Therefore, he is not mentally ill.
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Mama hung them everywhere. It started with just a few, in our apartment and outside on the brick. She made walls into windows.
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... we both know how we go to fresh air like fish, gasping.
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I can feel the souls
of those who perished
here
They’re still here
like old kites
hanging in the sky
tattered, but they
won’t come down
or can’t come down
just yet
because they haven’t
fulfilled their
unborn promises
t
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I am wearing stolen socks. Not because I haven't any of my own, and not because they are an exact fit. Only because they soothe my emptiness inside.
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i stained his hockey sheets
right over the red wings
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“Cheng Ho didn’t go just Cape Horn; treasure ships visit Australia and America. His very advanced compass. Not just point north-south. Show east-west too.”
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Their hearts had a place for the Elements. The Sentinels did not want to abandon them, their friends. Nor did they want to abandon each other.
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His birthday buddy was like a wife to him: they were born a day apart.
This was coordinated, he believe, in the womb. Well, to be more accurate, wombs. She was due two weeks earlier but waited; he two weeks later but cut his womb-time (as the kids call i
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