A Blinding Darkness
For prisoners, hope is a dangerous flame—one which fills their days with a flickering light, even […]
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Youth is Wasted on the Young
She’s only in town for two nights. And of those forty-eight hours, she’s set aside three
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Disobedience Is Not Recommended
You have been given a direct order: Touch me. Touch me like the last ripe mango
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Drips Dropped
Drips Dropped Drips dropped Drops dripped Drip Drop Plip Plop Honor Matter Payer Honor Matter Pay
Swimming Pool Soliloquy
This morning’s muted yellow kisses darkness as clouds shift, a waning moon sighs, the last of
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“Are you lost?”
Northern Virginia Summer 1985 Freshly cut grass, blades falling off his tiny back, the familiar summer
I Wake Up Before Her
What impish speckled rain that falls at willThat keeps most creatures from their quest for foodStricken
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