February 2012
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Barefoot Review: A place of expression for persons... →
From their Website: The Barefoot Review publishes original written work by people who have or have had physical difficulties in their lives, from cancer to seizures, Alzheimer’s to Lupus. It is also a place for caretakers, families, significant others and friends to write about their experiences and relationships to the person. They are a vital part to being able to live with an...
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the camera flash
the incidental photo that sent me foaming to the floor
ruined the family gathering with memories of debates over spoons and wallets and swallowing tounges
put me absent from the picture always, turned sideways to avoid the light.
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sound shapes fury
faulkner heard benjy see the swirling bright shapes but never knew i see them too each time neurons set fire to my brain
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lovely wine glass
on the soft white linen, glowing from the light, of a nearby candle, soft ember neatly sweetly glowing— to my impatient lips — a divine sacrament for my inner sorrows, my delicious miserable beauties— like milk and honey hints of sweet walnut —set me loose, little vine— for the pretty place and let me play without convictions. In the clarity of the glass there is...
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Pa put on his Sunday-go-to-Meet’ns hemmed and hawed and pawed at the tie— wearing a tie was like being hitched to a plow— he said.
The pastor talked on the evils of tobacco and gin— said a tobacco farmer was as bad as a gin-runner for giving out vices.
Pa fell back into the kitchen chair, stripped his tie— like a long dark leaf— and said:
“My land is...
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dim light, the last of us
it’s that dream again— it’s evening and parents are coaxing their children away from the last bits of 9 o’clock sun— forcing them from monkey bars and tree houses into pajamas brushing teeth— the sun is too bright the children are restless the day is too long— then it dawns on us the fire in the sky is growing we are frozen in the rising heat the all enveloping brightness does...
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Dear Brother,
another mug shot to hang on my wall in the place where a family photo should be. jerk.
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Saussure
Words, enigmatic building blocks, arbitrary relational signs, designate the flower not a tulip, not a daisy, but create the rose from thought and sound.
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The Barefoot Review: Summer 2012 →
Finally! An acceptance letter! I want to thank Jason at The Barefoot Review for accepting my submission. And for being dashingly handsome.