Tag: southern poets

Taking Flight

I release them. Fledglings pushed from the nest, thin-skinned and chirping. Constantly on guard...

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First Blush

The flutter of waking— sapphire butterflies poised to sip the earth’s nectar, its sweetness...

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Exotic Aquatic

Inside, it swims— this goldfish of light within a translucent bowl, its fragile curve an illusion...

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fence

a wooden line of lovers like rotting fence posts each stake more weathered and hollow than the...

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Jackson, 1962

Murder at midnight. Ruby light like a sheet over the Oldsmobile’s steel green skin. Undercover...

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Sandal Dust

You are the fourth nail dull, crooked and corroded piercing the watery heart pushing through the...

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Forbidden

He was born desert frost, a Kansas avalanche; an impossibility in her life posing as savage...

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unconscious

While you are sleeping they are sharpening the guillotine loading their guns sheathing knives at...

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