Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Don't ask

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Stranded between rooms,the admission hit us likecolliding treesstruck down by an unseen hand."Who, then?"I repeated,as if there weresome equationthat could stanch the inevitable.Perfectly incriminatedyou bathed in the winning momentand answered with two simple wordsfrom the slow luxuryof distance. More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Who are you?

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What are you, she asked, smiling.Oh, let's see, I answered, as if this was some new detour.German, Irish, Cherokee Indian, some other stuff.What other stuff, she pressed, dying to state the eternal gotcha.Martian, I said with a straight face, actually South Martian; that's where I get my curly hair.This was two decades ago, w... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nowhere to go

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And She Said I heard her from a few feet away down the Geography aisle, coughing: a dry, severed sort of sound, like a primeval call from some long-dead summit. I put my books back and crossed over to her, a woman, late 30's maybe, covering her mouth with both hands, as if trying to repulse an onslaught of curses pushing thei... More..

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