Gentle Madness
Image from pinterest.com sensual shadows drink a purpling moon teasing dull silken glimmer from scarves in their dance along aubergine hollows of candlelit thighs softly flickering fragrant with...
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Papa c. 1938 there once lived a man a truly good man the only man ever in the history of popes of prelates and pilgrims to walk with stout legs of a horseman healthy and hale fearless with faith upon...
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“Change (Self Portrait)” by Lucy Jane Purrington fighting the feeling the uselessness weary and wasted the hands and legs given to ghosts abled only by sleep a subconscious performance of memory...
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“Broken Forms” by Franz Marc flesh and bone prisons can’t incarcerate minds no matter the crime From my books Pieces of Wine and Riverthink
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“Old Tramp” by Laszlo Mednyanszky it arrived in a downpour this too-modern morning my black and blue flesh unprepared still not finished with yesterday’s mayhem and misery no time to bind broken...
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“Belper River Gardens Bandstand” by Andy Mayers round gazebos pavilions and pergola octagons stood village greens crowded with summers of swirled cotton candy and lemonade mason jars drawn into...
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Image from Richa Art Club placid glimmerglass sheen stretched canvas of forest and sky but I can’t find my youth in the diurnal scud of the clouds flying faster and further from halcyon days in the...
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“Landscape with Gnarled Tree” by William Lester Stevens wood shot through with knots gnarled by labors of conscience limbs weakened by guilt too many storms took their toll too little time to earn...
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“The Vagaries of Luck” by Alejandro Montañez old minds new things incompatible concepts change comes on like a train sound and fury and speed compose calculus of fear the terrors of infirmity...
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Double Crested Cormorant by Audubon a cormorant settles the swell of my chest lunar tides ebb and flow beneath rice paper skin its blue disc of an eye tracks anonymous prey lurking somewhere within...
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