She Waits for All of Us

She lives underground, of course, but feels the world above her through her hair that grows out as trees and flowers. Her eyes the oceans and rivers, where she watches you approach. You stumble down earthen paths, believing yourself to be lost. She waits. You trip and fall down ravines, and she catches you without […]

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Psychotropic Writer’s Block

Just can’t get this haze to leave; memories of my other mind make me grieve. The quakes won’t start, my seeds won’t grow; got stuck right here where the false winds blow. These lies in my veins, some thought they would help, but my imagination sends out no yelp, no explosions of passion, no well-crafted […]

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Henry David Thoreau

“Can’t see the forest for the trees;” that lesson sounds pretty attainable to me. I’ve found my Walden, tucked away in the woods and at night it robs my mind of its “shoulds.” Now I sit in the sun and the sparkling dirt, as the breeze sweeps in, I put on that red shirt —that […]

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Rainbow Brick Road

I miss my home, where trees were fractals flown over in the sky by galactic pterodactyls. The landscape was speckled with mystical fauna. Life felt like a collective nirvana. I’m goin back to where I come from. That whole was greater than what these parts sum. These fractured pieces go to a puzzle dreamt up […]

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Spirit Soldiers

All my roots been feelin cracked and dry. These indigo children not knowin how to lie to themselves for too long, to their souls for too deep; but they’ll keep on tryin til they die in their sleep. ‘Cause they’re dealt a hand of cards they don’t know how to hold; they’re playin the devil’s […]

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Thanks, Opie

Traded a lead role in the war for a walk-on part in this cage; Turned in my infinite connection for a no-liner on one stage. The quantic and its family can’t keep track of me no more. Serendipity thinks I’ve left her; there’ve been no knocks at her door. At one point life got separated […]

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