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 Flashback No. 1
Nineteen He was nineteen dying in a field in a foreign land. That was all he knew. He wasn’t feeling brave but only afraid as he felt the life slipping out of him. He didn’t know who was right or who was wrong as they argued about it in the grocery stores in the newspapers … Continue reading The VGP Flashback No. 1
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