Tag: artist

midnight snack and repercussions (20160707)

crow17 Comments

i slip out of bed
tiptoe to the kitchen
through
midnight house darkness

meatloaf
awaits me
in the fridge

in its own congealed juices
it needs companions
brown bread
mayo and salt

eaten cold
eaten silently
eaten quickly
it settles happily
in the gut

but in that house void of lights
except for charging phones
the loaf delivers
hours of indigestion and
nightmares on chipped, bleeding hooves
until breakfast

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for
The Daily Post
Daily Prompt: Darkness

proiectus (20160705)

crow5 Comments

use a plane
the kind without wings

take me apart
one layer at a time

each strata reveals
subsurface fossils

memories, anger, fear
desire trapped in amber

light shines through
bright enough to cast shadows

old bones glow
beneath translucent skin

my insides projected
against the wall

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for
The Daily Post
Daily Prompt: Layers

norns (20160703)

crow9 Comments

the woman sits at the loom
thread in her hands
she measures a cord
an arm’s length equal to
the length of a man’s life

if she coughs
or bored, looks out the window
as she pulls the skein
the measurement
might lack

if she sings freely
a song that makes her smile
or remembers a boy lost
to all but memory
she may add an extra span

she adds no knots
weaves no pattern
that task goes to
a sister already tangling
measured threads

the pattern and the knots
disguise the true length
hiding years, hiding dead ends
hiding where the third sister
kissed it with her blade

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for
the secret keeper
Weekly Writing Prompt #43
SONG | WOMAN | FREE | NO | LOST

Open Mic for July

crow13 Comments

First call for the monthly Open Mic Invitation.

You know you want to lull me to sleep with your mesmerizing, velvety tones. So why not, I say. Why not? Grab an ice cold lemonade or iced tea (or an Arnold Palmer for those JUST CAN’T CHOOSE), wet your whistle, and hit record on your phone/computer/ultra modern recording studio.

We’re all waiting to hear you.

Here are the steps you need to take (reduced to three for a limited time):

  1. Record yourself reading one of your own works.
  2. Post it on your site (or Soundcloud or any other audio hosting site).
  3. Include a link to this post in your post;
    OR comment below;
    OR send me a message using the contact form.

I will post a link with your name and poem title RIGHT HERE and on the new Open Mic page (it’s above in the menu).

Remember, it’s an open mic invitation. NOT a challenge.

Also, if you can think of a way to improve the format, I’m all ears.

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Poet Rummager aka Rose Fluttering

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Crow the moon and the crickets

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Poet Rummager (aka Rose) Scylla

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Pleasant Street hotter than eggs on a pan

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REVELACIONES ÍNTIMAS DE UN ESCLAVO CAR-di-NAL

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Crow caught without umbrellas (20160727)

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