Sep 28, 2016 | Word Among Us
Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown strange perfume In a naked Room. Langston Hughes
Sep 26, 2016 | Word Among Us
Sometimes I feel like I will never stop Just go forever Til one fine mornin’ I’m gonna reach up and grab me a handfulla stars Swing out my long lean leg And whip three hot strikes burnin’ down the heavens And look over at God and say How about that!...
Sep 24, 2016 | Word Among Us
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let...
Sep 22, 2016 | Word Among Us
If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky, That coin will spin, That coin will flutter, But the eagle will never fly. -Henry Dumas
Sep 17, 2016 | Word Among Us
tired I count the ways in which it determines my life permeates everything it’s in the air lives next door to me in stares of neighbors meets me each day in the office, its music comes out the radio drives beside me in my car, strolls along with me down...
Sep 12, 2016 | Word Among Us
The black unicorn is greedy. The black unicorn is impatient. The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist painted mockeries of my fury. It is not on her lap where the horn rests but deep in her moonpit growing. The...
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