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It took years and years for someone to finally figure out the answer. Obvious, if you thought a moment but mortals don’t think, why they wage so many wars: if they can’t solve a riddle in the blink of a wolf’s eye, they toss...

Our flames do the work of your deity, who created us so you’d have to choose between good and evil: to His disappointment, you choose evil far too often. But we’re the ones blamed as the “enemy,” like the lies spewed by the last...

We’re celebrated as pure, like the Virgin, though half of us are males and love the filthy thrusting as much as any creature, maybe more, since our time in Arthur’s kingdom is almost done, our numbers dwindling like leaves...

Congregation haloed pilgrims bearing witness at dawn follow shining namesake through each day pirouette away as light falters Fiery border on country road inspiration for Van Gough’s brush statues soak in crystal vase on my...

After we younglings in choir loft intone our last song close our hymnals we wander down uneven steps kneel beside statues lit with flickering candles burning with intention melting — so silent smell dripping wax just...

Barefoot — settle in fresh cut grass I look through long-ago window enchanted living room aglow stare touches golden brocade couch Upright piano — sheet music splayed open — singing French door waves wide into...

With gentle, geometric gratitude, The anxiety that lives in her eyes reclines. A little fishing village stocks her mood With coffee beans and butter. History mines The past on screen for suitors, hesitates… Her eyelashes...

And across the sundial the cruel shadow Of the condor sails like a black ship. – Pablo Neruda, Canto General: Song of the Americas (The Heights of Macchu Picchu) Douglas County, I accuse you of being as heavy As an...

A knock on the door echoes through the Palace, through my veiled head. Five of the Sultan’s handmaidens enter, dart around like swallows, ringing my eyes with kohl before I can blink, berry-staining my lips before a sigh can...

Just listen to who is speaking, don’t judge ‘em I nod Try to accept what you hear I nod, again Empathize, don’t compare with yourself Another nod You may think you’re different or better, but you’re not I disagree but don’t let...