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 Jul 2016 Sea
Jack Ghaven
You'll always yell "shotgun"
Begging someone to follow with "wedding"
But with every single shotgun
Only comes a pounding headache
Until it finally blows my head off
I only ever gave myself to be guarded
The only cocktails we share are Molotov
Yet I still don't regret what I started
Inspiration from a conversation with a friend, as well as from a song that sticks in my head
 Jul 2016 Sea
echo
Take heart
 Jul 2016 Sea
echo
The road will bend
the tide will turn
& all that's whispered
will be heard.
 Jun 2016 Sea
Joshua Haines
She has a shaved head
that reminds me of a
crooked-smile-ex;
that choked on cigarettes
and words too contrived,
painted in a negligence
for humanity and a
belief in uninformed
nothingness.

Her body curves like
backroads I've been lost in.
Skin as pale as an eggshell,
I'd imagine she'd shatter
under the olive robe
she calls a dress
and bounce under the
kickstep of organic flats.

Eventually she will become
too much of an idea, she will
evolve into a misogynistic
poem, and if I were
to imagine her naked,
guilt would flood our fleshly-
alcohol-stained-continents,
angry between every slur,
loving between the shadows
of phantoms I once knew.
Killing trees swing
back and forth,
hang our men
with loving force.
 Apr 2016 Sea
Stephan
Take it
 Apr 2016 Sea
Stephan
the world is your oyster
take the pearl
and I’ll just lie here in the sand
an empty shell
once again
 Apr 2016 Sea
nivek
Commanded to speak when spoken to
wearing the Victorian straight jacket
kept our small mouths at bay
Each mealtime became a terror
and the sharing of a family meal
the battleground of broken wills.
 Apr 2016 Sea
Rainey Birthwright
Out on the breakers
Eyes in the sea are watching me
But seals never speak

The sea birds are gulling
Always they argue over shells
I know how they feel

Long across the heath
The piebald mountains cradle me
But snows, they only whisper

The stationary stone village
Is thatched in chalk and grey wood
Happy in branch without trees
 Apr 2016 Sea
Eriko
Simple Pleasures
 Apr 2016 Sea
Eriko
Shut blinds glowing warmly
Clementine yellow and hazy mustard
Shaved ghostly plywood
Cluttered with picture frames
And beckoning swirly glances
Eyes irises of golden wooden fiber
Creeping smell of freshly baked bread
Buttery and lustful smothered with
Raspberry jam or honey rivulets
Dark, deep burgundy lipstick
Tinted like lavender silk
A lone girl sitting in in empty room
Transfixed as the pleasures
Take a stronger hold
I love this setting
 Apr 2016 Sea
Barton D Smock
(-)
 Apr 2016 Sea
Barton D Smock
(-)
nakedness,

give it time
to recover
 Apr 2016 Sea
Eriko
Sun's Reprise
 Apr 2016 Sea
Eriko
Stained glass bellowing
of passionate sublime hues
Stroke of sun's reprise
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