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Love the title, just sayin. … Imprisoned in a room filled with monsters, Teddy Bear stares at the white-washed walls. They hold the answer to a question- Ever since he ...

Quit staring at me with those large, round eyes. I don't deserve your scrutiny, their lies. your scrutiny, but their lies? Whose lies? The eyes' lies? I don't know. The ...

REPRESAS Grace sits in this lawn chair naked, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes as the dead growth burns in a a circle of scowling winter trees the embers forming unstatic ...

hey Navita you leave the best comments. I appreciate it. CROSS-STREETS, STREETS, NOLITA smog tears gather at the base of the Rocky Mountain spine, Denver and glassy eyed featureless teenagers ...

Small wonder I recoiled at my cross-shaped reflection, pretty good opening. One suggestion I do have is to change it to present tense. Makes it more immediate, and thus more ...

THE ORIGINAL 17 INCH STORM it's up to the lighthouse with Stella dodging rogue waves on the stone staircases of pacific island reefs, I covet the spring storms and warm ...

APRIL CHARM this is not a college town with its steampunk pulse and Gethsemane parks, infested with drunks bullying their way down brine-blurred boulevards between plate-glass salons and the swinging ...

RED WINE AND WHISKEY I married the seventh bird, but I wanted the first and the sixth the most. Maria with her dress made of napalm and tiger tongues Teresa ...

not bad for a haiku. Haikus can be a really effective form, but since they are so short every word has to be absolutely necessary and concise. One piece of ...

I don't know, I mean. There's some interesting stuff, it's a story, I like those things, but the delivery just isn't working for me. The rhyme scheme makes it really ...

By day we walk the long road ahead, then the sun will set and we'll go to bed. Seems choppy to me. It could be reworked into something that flows ...

hey there's some strong stuff in here, I'm impressed!

Midnight stars watch over me as the shadows scratch at my doors. Do not let the shadows fool you, for they are not what they seem. The first two lines ...

The war of everyday has left me torn, my patients worn. So I just turn away.. Because the things we really mean, don't come from what we say. first thing: ...

Jiggity: I did this last year, you musta missed it. TEXAS Christian, with his Swedish haircut and his viking biceps, drinks a tall glass of cold-front clouds. Bottled in 1982 ...