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Alone I'm surrounded. Surrounded by many, many people. People who continue to converse, they seem happy. Knowing in which what to say, laughing and joking. The atmosphere is fun and bright. They make an attempt to include me, but their chose topics confuse me. I am surrounded by people but, yet, I feel alone.
By Cheshire Hatter8 years ago in Poets
Elegy for My Grandmother . Top Story - February 2018.
And love is bread baskets left in the sun. The bread turned hard. As stone. And men who walk past windows. The same men whom I see at night. Back when wall reliefs sprouted on flat chests. All the girls would stare out windows sit on porches with short skirts and legs spread. Wide. Licking fuzzy navel shaved ice off fingers. That later motioned at men to come near. On the porch you were safe from gazes filled high like towers. There was nowhere to prepare for men. But then again, there are no back porches in Georgia. What of men? She says. Of men who march of men who live in sheets. What of rooms where babies are made, are they holy? Do they shine like rain in silver pails rain that makes your hair grow? Standing next to the genip tree I see a dress that picks at the wind. It is yellow and muddled with dishwasher spots.
By Samantha Williams8 years ago in Poets
She + Him
INT. ROOM - NIGHT A soft piano melody plays in the background. *"Friendship Before Love" by Cellophane Roses plays* CU on aged hands playing a lonely piano. A vase of dried petals sit nearby on a desk. The lighting dreary and dark, but a flicker of a candlelight strays beyond, highlighting the silhouette of our PIANIST.
By Samantha Baker8 years ago in Poets
Prologue | An Empty Rib Cage
The writing takes away from it, so I would learn. As countless vain scribbles-projections of directionless emotion-met page after page, I found my fingers reduced to quivering nubs, bleeding my story on paper that would forever be deaf to my thoughts as you were blind to my presence. So here I was.
By Dio against Mildred8 years ago in Poets
