Pit Stop Early morning air whistles past the plant on the dresser, kicks at a scarf hanging on my bed post, then finds the place in my mind holding childhood trinkets. I surprise myself, reacting in song. I sing an old folk song handled and dusted by time, passed down generation to generation. AnContinueContinue reading “Pit Stop”
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Poem: Anything Else
Anything Else -Shannon P. Laws It flakes off my shoulder when I bend down Black trails my movement Dark spots in the corner of my eye let me know it’s still there A reminder of the charcoal thread that ties me to my past whisps of whispers from that one night long agoContinueContinue reading “Poem: Anything Else”
Poem: Wallow in Ashes
Wallow in Ashes -for Joshua S. Blough, 28, shot/died in Elizabethtown, KY 7/7/2015 Somewhere a family mourns In your town the pleasant fields are quiet fruit of the vine quivers in dew sky covers itself in sackcloth A neighbor calls for a welfare check You answer with your knife Weapon of passion, ofContinueContinue reading “Poem: Wallow in Ashes”
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