She contains worlds within her smile
Multitudes within her eyes
From fingertips spin forth
Parchment galaxies
To lose her is to lose them
To keep her is to enchain
What’s the proper answer
When all roads lead to misery
In the name of art, of beauty
September 29, 2014
From “The Unmade Multitudes, Pt. 2” by Chadwick Thaddeus Harris
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September 28, 2014
From “The Unmade Multitudes, Pt. 1” by Chadwick Thaddeus Harris
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September 26, 2014
From “Within/Without” by Chadwick Thaddeus Harris
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July 30, 2014
From “The Mysterious Final Poems of Milo Sapfen” edited by Ron Pilkinton
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July 28, 2014
From “The Poppies’ Embrace” by Anonymous
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Fighting for the man beside us
Seen through gas-mask lenses
Through phosgene clouds
Advancing silhouettes
Rifle’s jammed, a club only
Too long and heavy anyway
When death’s at arm’s length
Or from above, a thunderbolt
I grapple with my enemy
Hand to hand, war to the knife
Fumbling in chemical twilight
Blades though both our chests
Now-useless masks come off
Red foam on uniforms, lips
We clasp trembling hands
Enemies waiting for the end
May 11, 2014
From “The Garden of Time” by Fredie Gotman
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In my garden I grow fresh hours
As others might grow verdant flowers
I harvest fresh bouquets of seconds
To hang about as summer beckons
My minutes are coming in a bit small
Ground cuckoo fertilizer to make them tall
Though you say my garden is a waste of my time
I’ll keep my precious moments in green and rhyme
April 12, 2014
From “the roar of distant water” by Anonymous
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If I had but known
The secrets of the universe
Were revealed in a beaten
Paperback book
I would have been
Less of a hardcover snob
All these weary long years
In the wilderness
If you find it yourself
You will know the sign
When the words dance
At the roar of distant water
March 24, 2014
From “Crushed Beneath the Coke Machine” by Macie Bertha Duchesne-Kochen
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March 15, 2014
From “The Book of Wailing and Salutations, Vol. 2” by Johny Osvaldo Orff
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February 22, 2014
From “The Expected Pedestrian” by Koji Umebayashi
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