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Swallowing the Sun

She swallowed the sun whole On a Wednesday afternoon. Just crammed it right into her mouth, Like a fiery jelly doughnut. Sticky sunny ooze Dribbling out the end, as she shoved the last sunbeam in....

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Get Bent

“To remain whole, be twisted. Become bent, and be straightened. Become hollow, and be filled. Wear out, and be renewed.” (22nd stanza of the Tao)

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Skinning Life

Had she known from the Beginning that Life is like a Snake… Turning and twisting through the years of Life… Shedding its skin, just as we all shed extraneous layers….eventually. Had she known both Life...

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Prose for Jimi

    God bless you Hendrix.   Are you live, or are you Memorex?   Your oozing twang-jive that you bled back then is a whole-blood transfusion for my head. Electric riffs rip my seams.  My skull peels...

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Light Junkies

No squinting. No pinching back the light. Only compulsion and slack-bodied surrender. Flame-singed wingtips Corpuscles popping at hints of heat. I know why. Gossamer gold glimmers in luminous Light We...

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Reborn Through Art and Ink (a personal essay)

The tattoo gun murmurs its Morse code on my Manubrium, the hard bones perched just above soft curves of cleavage.  From the first tip of costal cartilage, down to the fourth Line of Union on my...

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