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Poetry in my head by SkyeJC
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Poetry in my headby Skye J Cardoz
Just expressing my mind.
Believer's Guide to Drifting by MichaelPollick
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Believer's Guide to Driftingby Michael Pollick
On the one hand, we have this couple-so young, so connected, so grounded. The balloon they released together into the Memphis air held two cards in tow as it found its w...
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Urim and Thummin by MichaelPollick
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Urim and Thumminby Michael Pollick
Your tattooed stigmata is showing, my dear- that spot of willful blood lies dormant; while greedy hosts of Angels draw illicit lots, and seek redemption in performanc...
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Bringing the Wendy's by MichaelPollick
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Bringing the Wendy'sby Michael Pollick
Just clang on the lamp if you need anything, mom. I'll just be lying here, thinking about how small morphine is, And how large life is going to get in six months to a ye...
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Mother's Day  by NIKHILESHMISHRA7
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Mother's Day by NIKHILESH MISHRA
After achieving puberty how young hearts starts chasing love when they are first allowed to step out of the house in the society. When they go schools and colleges they...
Fresh Butterfly Milk by MichaelPollick
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Fresh Butterfly Milkby Michael Pollick
These are the warning signs of a visceral God at work: The repressed hands become tender and forgiving once again, The calloused eyes begin to see the wonder of a thous...
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Collateral Damage Report by MichaelPollick
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Collateral Damage Reportby Michael Pollick
Let us skip, you and I, through certain half-smelted streets; where time and conscience dissolve like watches, and glass shadows catch the first sun's rays fully on thei...
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Brady's Leap by MichaelPollick
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Brady's Leapby Michael Pollick
I sit beside the Cuyahoga creek and wonder how he done it- Pursued by motivated Native Americans across the burning Midwestern grass, until he found himself caught betwe...
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Cambodian Music by MichaelPollick
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Cambodian Musicby Michael Pollick
Pol Pot's deflowered now who used to ride a water- smooth buffalo and kill onetwothreefourfive million traitors Justlikethat -- Jeezus, he...
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Flesh and Principalities by MichaelPollick
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Flesh and Principalitiesby Michael Pollick
Pilate is doomed to clean his rifle forever- The walls will not forget these nights. If you decided to brave the waters of sanctioned terror, be sure to wear your Christ...
Snapshot:  Kittanning, Pennsylvania 1963 by MichaelPollick
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Snapshot: Kittanning, Pennsylvani...by Michael Pollick
Looking north up South Water street, the dying stand solid as parking meters, finding finer spirits underground than the ones they were promised.
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Gate Knowledge by MichaelPollick
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Gate Knowledgeby Michael Pollick
This is where the desperate stitches begin to take hold - In the wary edges of unproven cloth; In the delicate fears of virtuous women, In the fevered robes of noble sol...
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Cleft for Me by MichaelPollick
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Cleft for Meby Michael Pollick
Four small whispers can now leave rehearsal, the last cigarette has been ground to ashes. It was once important for us to kill some Negroes, no matter how many times the...
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Brother to the Dragon, Companion to the Owl by MichaelPollick
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Brother to the Dragon, Companion t...by Michael Pollick
Somewhere in the white hot core of the Dancer's spirit lie the remnants of too much vision, lies the residue of a thousand broken treaties: lies the child who bartered w...
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Plane Wrecks by MichaelPollick
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Plane Wrecksby Michael Pollick
Leaving Iowa behind simply cleared the mind of many a pop idol; Farmers' sons and factories' daughters loved to twist and bellow, flaming out to immoral race records...
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Sea of Reeds by MichaelPollick
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Sea of Reedsby Michael Pollick
My gas-stained hands touch her steel, and for a moment all the world seems unemployed. (I stand in a hole reamed out by greedy oresmen, and silently wait for their own...
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