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 Feb 2018
Elizabeth Squires
The poet crew were getting error notes
As their captain slumbered below deck
No aiding was forthcoming in the wreck
Their many calls unheard by his ear totes
Prays said for the server to be righted
For some while it had been out of kilter
And not one post could go through the filter
Like forever they'd be badly blighted
A rapid fire response oh where was that?
Verse writers invoked this very refrain
Ever their words unseen on the site's log
Forsaken by a skipper sleeping flat
They felt so alone without rescue's wain
Drifting as if mired in a thick fog
 Jan 2018
r
I'll wake up
Mundy morning
dead tired
from restless
dreams about
the forbidden sound
of fish on ice,
a harmonica
full of ants,
cat paws that fall
in the night,
the breathing
of waterfalls,
the depth
of mountain roots
and falling soot
from the fires
of Viking pyres.
 Jan 2018
c
Sometimes I want to be held and whispered “beautiful” promises to but
Other times I need no excuses to run streets
caked head to high-heel in low-cut, skin-tight, green-light layers
Each curvature unapologetically weaved
into some savior’s careful bow
These curves were never hers to call home
They dwell under the thumb of some street man or
That sweet man you once called your own, but
Before he strived to own you
Like a toothbrush or a window
These things don't come so easy
For the one they call Eve
Or no, how did it go?
Something about an apple or a tree or
A woman free to live freely without a he
Though she’s meant to bare the root of all being
We
Pinned the scheme
On her

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c
I scream to have *** with time,
A morning brings a contradiction in terms,
In between the other and all forces of allusive virtues,
The style awaits for an arrogance to bloom!
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