Category: Issue #4
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Reasonable Doubt
By summer, they would bear heavy fruit. Red, ripe, and gleaming like truth finally unearthed. The neighbors would marvel and say the soil here must be special.
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Granite
Hands full of nothing, placed in their ever growing pile.
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A Kind of Mercy
Still, when he smiles at you the next day, for just a moment, your chest opens. The sun catches the glass of the kitchen window and turns everything gold. It doesn’t last, but it’s enough.
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Edat Cor
Lachesis, your Icarus has fallen But, Sisters, notice how the sea isn’t sullen He hasn’t reached for his wings, wax and strings of a toy For he’s found locus amoenus with this boy
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Dear Life,
I think I’m falling in love with you.
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Deciduous
Now that I drown in Autumn’s descending light, do you find me repulsive, unbearable to glimpse at?
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The Fish Have No Feelings
Sometimes you feel that love is the kind of thing you have to get good at.
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Dreamwalker speaks genesis
Before you were dust, you were the universe.
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As Angels Grow
I had tumbled and fought my way through a seemingly endless path, but I had somehow reached a dead end.
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BARS
I began to wonder if I had been relegated to live in complete and utter isolation from any and all genuine connection.