Vulnerable The heart is an organ of fire. --Herodotus Layers of defenses peel away, rice paper shredded beneath heat metal hands, lightening glass sparks. You unearth the hollow beneath my heart, once constricted. Make it blossom full-petaled... A flower fed on tears flames to life, too intense for restraint. The edge of your fingers fillet … Continue reading The VGP Flashback #2
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Carcinogenic Poetry Recap No. 2
David The first time I met David, he bit me. I am standing outside the hospital, the old gates to the hospital, Victorian arches, that are lonely left, un-instituted, and substituted by modern housing, housing us, separately, Barrat-barracked solitude. David is with me, he stands near me, still nervous after twenty years away. Today is … Continue reading Carcinogenic Poetry Recap No. 2
The VGP Literate No. 16
Million Millennial March They will flood the streets like a tsunami of determination and they will confront the powers that bee-sting the masses and they will raise their hands and swat the buzz right out of the fly on the wall Big Brother watching us all and monitoring our every left wing movement and then … Continue reading The VGP Literate No. 16