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Between 183 and Liberty Church

The spot near the plastics plant,

Bare earth scooped neatly into mounds,

Preparations for a new recycling plant.

Skittering along the debris of a

Previously undisturbed wild,

Before my memories formed.

Eating hot pink clovers that tasted like

Sweet carrots, as mama said they would,

My little brother hopping in the lazy puddles.

This disturbed earth not a quarter mile

From my new home on the outskirts of town,

Our lot barely having grown it's beard of grass.

The newest children in my small neighborhood

(if there are any) Will never know this place

Apart from where their fathers might work

The spot between the 183 and Liberty Church

Where once was trees and clovers

Where once kids scrambled over piles of dirt

Where once all seemed well in the world

Where earliest memories were made

We're neither of us angels

I

The crowd of lesser demons gnawing at my thoughts doesn’t come from us –

my mind circles because our moments won’t stand still to be captured.

I only haunt myself when you’re not in reach to remind me I haven’t died.

II

I weave secrets, around you, over you, yet in your presence nothing is hidden,

not even the carelessness of my wishing. You are the pennies winking low in the well,

taunting me. Every past moment of wistfulness for someone I hadn’t met yet arriving

with the grace and fluidity of rain now distils fears to the nightmare of losing this.

III

No angels will save us – still a barter better than any

offered at the crossroads. I’ll love the demons to death.

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A List of "Beautiful" Words: Yellow

for your next poem/story

Aureate - of a golden color

Auric - of, relating to, or derived from gold

Aurify - to turn into gold

Bilious - a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver

Citreous - of the color citron yellow

Flavescent - turning yellow; yellowish

Flaxen - resembling flax especially in pale soft strawy color

Fulvous - of a dull brownish yellow; tawny

Gild - to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold

Gilt - of the color of gold

Gold - a variable color averaging deep yellow

Icterus - yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments; jaundice

Lutescent - yellowish

Luteous - yellow tinged with green or brown

Luteolous - slightly yellow; yellowish

Mustard - a dark to moderate yellow

Ochroid - resembling yellow ocher in color

Old gold - a dark yellow

Primrose yellow - a light to moderate yellow

Sallow - of a grayish greenish yellow color

Sandy - of a yellowish-gray color

Straw - of the color of straw: pale yellow in color

Topaz - a yellow sapphire or quartz

Xanthism - coloring (as of the skin or pelt) marked by a predominance of yellow pigments

Xanthochroism - abnormal coloration of feathers (as in some parrots) in which yellow replaces the normal color

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yearning for heaven, you'll never be free

Heavy

On Writing Poetry

and I still

don’t know where to start

writing poetry any more be-

-cause every moment feels knee

deep in the ongoing fire of the

world perpetuated by forces

beyond my control but not

my understanding. They have

names and wear gaudy ties

and smile for the camera

after lobbying to reduce

safety to up production 

and pour toxic waste into

the ground / minds / air

so if I told you I was in

love with a jasmine on a 

bonny hill as the sun rises

would that lift a child from

the ruin of a hospital? I am

running out of time

for hope and trying my best

to throw spare change over

the flames and protest to the

powers whose pockets are too

full to move the dial an inch

away from oblivion and I

don’t know where to start

but this will end one of two

ways. So, maybe I’ll write again

for the end I want see

for the day after

when I can show you a jasmine

on a bonny hill as the sun rises.