by JD DeHart Cut short, brought low, chopped down to size. The ornament, packaged, wants to burst free. All your life you can depend on the boost of others. We stand on the shoulders of giants, they say, but who knows about the existence of giants. They are only as real as the centaurs living down the street. JD DeHart Read More
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sometimes ravens conquer wolves
by Linda M. Crate shouldn’t have depended on my respect when you couldn’t build a worthy nest you shouldn’t have expected my heart to bloom when all you gave me was discord and disapproval tears were my only friends some nights as i hugged my pillow tight for comfort as a lonely elephant holding her tail, but it was always Read More
Depend
“Elephants never depend,” say the males. They repeat it on the fringe, outside the herds. When a young male leaves his mothers, the fathers rumble to him that masculine wisdom. They use it to impart strength and dispel responsibility. Adolescents trumpet it when females drive them off, hardness between their legs and blood-heat sweating their cheeks. When the fraternal groups rupture during Read More