fragments of chiaroscuro

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I’m not waiting for structures to collapse / and reform / and reshape / and remake / themselves / from the ruins. -Waiting by Lynn White

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Spiders woven into exuberant webs / diamond eyes glistening, weaving / tapestries, cast out before the gentle / moaning, of an untouched dawn. -Romantic Interlude by Wayne Russell

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If only the wish were enough / To bring it about from obscurity / Without a gesture, only pure magic / A breath inhaled, a soft exhale. -Close by Fabrice Poussin

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Psychosis by John Grey: she speaks the tongues, / she rides the flashbacks, / channel-surfs voices / even slices herself / a stigmata or two

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Could we look to the sky / for anything? / Or would our words / get graffitied on the pedestal -If by Kristina England

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Waves pound craggy shore lines into slow surrender -In the Name of Love by Wayne Russell

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I pray that chance and quirkiness / Keep my child from danger / That a disconnected line / Be her smile -Midsummer XIII by Glen Armstrong

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I once had a brother / but my parents packed him / in a metal box / and said, “Don’t open. / He’s got scars you could never / recover from.” -Discovering the Past by Kristina England

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egos barely concealed / by assumed authority. -Medical Visit by Gary Beck

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from every star / and grain of sound / that forever and ever / spoke a single word -The Universal Frame of Reference by Neil Ellman

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the night skips / naked like a stone, dark across the / quivering lake -Back Into the Light by Glen Armstrong

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A galaxy, tiptoeing around the stars / Dancing with the comets skipping through -A Little Sun by Fabrice Poussin

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Something makes time / out of unmeasured emptiness -Bedside Book of Birds by Glen Armstrong

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as they punctuate the night / with prophesies of light -Script(ure) by Neil Ellman

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Scale and pixilation / are to consciousness / as blood is to circuit -Directions by Glen Armstrong

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The silence is torture, beating out time in front of me like an aggressive clock. -Doubtmaker by James Baxenfield

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Grammar jokes never get old.