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  • making cupid proud - ghazal

    I miss that being who writes ghazals and trains them together with string doesn't look at us mere mortals, hides in a cape trailing strings -- A light-footed nightingale, drawing ...

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  • February

    This is all of a short story in need of critique. If this is too long for one post -- I'm not sure how it's supposed to go with finished ...

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  • prose poem for a night out on the town

    prose poem for a night out on the town People pretend and tell how they cry to the moon then merely stand amazed at her curves for a moment, at ...

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  • when we wake, we forget what we have dreamed.

    Some things make the most sense on a bleary morning, their shadows dark and clear against the fog, that bleakness opens up wide as the world, as a wounded ghost. ...

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  • i have no more poetry to give

    i have no more poetry to give, to lay upon the altar of your shoulderblades; beads of words trapped as sweat in the valley of your back. i have barely ...

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  • The Lake

    The Lake The wavelets of the lake pat against your ankles, like a wagging soggy dog ready to shake and ecstatic to discover a wet coat's ability to cause absolute ...

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  • Vagabond Cabaret

    this is not nearly as well thought out and sophisticated as anything by Williams, but I had fun with it. Any suggestions on the rhythm/rhyme, or on keeping the imagery ...

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  • the man who lost his shadow

    this is the first half. The man who lost his shadow. By the time Edgar realized he had lost his shadow, it was long gone – it might have been ...

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  • Aspen

    Aspen. i. I remember the night of my birth. If I could pretend there were music playing in the background, it would be sad and distorted. [she looks over my ...

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  • The Fate of Mice

    The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick was one of those books I pulled off the shelf on a whim, and to my delight and surprise the prose pulled me ...

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  • goodnight.

    The sun, a hot vessel sparking trees over water, does not concern itself with partings. This is more comforting than you'd imagine. If we were standing on a long dock ...

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  • before, our breath held us.

    In that week of heat and quiet before the riots started, your girlfriend and I stalked the cigarette-strewn streets and plotted demise: yours, everything we might never know. She was ...

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For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle ... anyone can get angry—that is easy—or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble.
— Aristotle