by LE Francis Twin stars, once twin bright,until the dog star set offinto early middle age. You burnedlike a backcountry grove, & youbecame the end of clouds & comets. You wrought newplanets of bone & mist & spite,to devise & reform, destroy& reset the atoms that madeyou burn. There was no definition clever enough to make youaccept, & no fact Read More
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Sin Within
by Rickey Rivers Jr. A shower every hour to wash the skin I’m in.To wash away the sin I’m in, to wash off the sin within. Nightmares wake me.Air inhaled cinnamon. I can’t apologize for other men who sin.Just for myself and all that I hold in. Hot water washes it away, helps me see another day. Vividly, with red Read More