Daily Archives: June 19, 2012

Walking Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death

****Its old, its rough, its 18, borders on blasphemy, and is old enough to vote and legally marry, if it was a person and not a short story…  Hope you like The executioner fastens cold bands of metal around Jacob’s … Continue reading

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above

in this state of spirit locked to matter this mind, this head thinks too highly of itself separated from the rest of flesh by a thin columnar neck so we say, mind over matter and not so much spirit versus … Continue reading

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now, you love me

after anger and fear, after name-calling and bleeding souls after we have torn each other like fighting wildcats or ravenous sharks you would say you love me. Well, love, what speaks from your heart is not love but terror of … Continue reading

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because you made me smile this is yours

this is yours because today you coaxed out a smile from where it hid in a corner, pale and dusty and it flew to my lips and stayed sweet because your gifts are a rush of hummingbird wings on my eyelids, a … Continue reading

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