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Thinly gilded copper Tied with straps, virulent with jewels  Stranger colors Among god’s smaller things, I hide Lacquer dimly shone, slick  Pour into smaller cups Another man’s, maybe Sleep as virtue and velvet coat Witnesses to outer dark Read more.

Cheap plastic sign in the grass in front of a shopping center  Lose weight fast 40 pounds in two months  No pills No doctors No diet  No hunger No cravings  No exercise What a thing, I thought Seas of galvanized household items  A face leers from the greenish grime of… Read more.

A woman sits on a bus stopacross the street from a small brick firehouse and a mexican restaurant named after a work of byronthe bus comes and she doesn’t get ondown the street is another mexican restaurantcalled sangrias and a gas station that says 24/7 in neon color above the… Read more.

First chapter of the completed manuscript for publicationFergus Mackenzie– Fathers died on the island. So often, it seemed their only purpose, and so it no longer interested the residents of the little place. Because of this, not a soul watched the coffin as it was lowered into the ground. All… Read more.