Isabella Russell-Ides, Thanatopsis Redux

She speaks a various language.*                                                Bound in the bardo bereft     vaguely present, almost dead.For fucking shining aloud            let me    back in. Come again, sustaining terrorCarve my shadow on your cave…

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Gayle Reaves-King, All Fall Down

Emerge shining, misshapen.No more can they confine you. Rise and stretchthe figure once buried, obscure, stinking under history. Escapethe shadow of decency that bound you, open the huge mouth we…

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Mark David Noble, an accounting

thoughts emerge aloud, unintended, launching like a hunting dog set free, with field bound abandon, formerly muted details escape, mystify other patrons in this grocery store check-out line  what item…

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Madhuri Nagaraj, Disenchanted

Yesterday I went blind.No sudden crush of ebonied nightUnder which fractured stars emergeNo molten terror that does shift and spitover fettle, through weathered gorgeNo such desperate revealNo such merciful source…

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Linley Munson, Chrysalis

You confine me in shadow, obscure my vision,Let terror wash over meI try to stretch my limbs, yearning for freedom,To reveal myself to the worldIt doesn’t work; I am bound…

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Sherry Lou Mills, ODYSSEY

The crush bound admired the scoring organ. Shift would render details of carve fettle, but stretch could mystify muted escape. As shadow present might confine terror obscure, sustaining gorge field…

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lyrikal777, something

mystify then ,emerge and render something beautiful .escape this presentobscure conundrum .shift .this is not home .bound to figure it out .tomorrow i carvewith the details of this very thought…

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Kari Lynch, Communion

I used to love a boy who could render fat from any source until shining, liquid gold would emergehissing the hymn of its soul but bound my mouth to muted…

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