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 Feb 2013 shiloh
VioletNova
A thousand ships
sailed like
the day you carved
my breath out
from the inside.

Curtains etch light
against unfinished
cracked walls
calm wind
laid across
abandoned bodies

Words worn like
garments around our
wrists in chords, you
gently raking stars
from my eyes.
 Feb 2013 shiloh
Jon Tobias
I want to hang art in the vaulted ceilings of your chest

Appreciate the space like
footstep
echo
silence

Hang paintings of ugly beauty from the knives still stuck in your back

That was what all this pain has been meant for
To hang art from

Newspaper clippings of suicides still walking into heaven
Their faces finally happy
Maybe one is waiting for you

Jackson ******* rugburn that taught you forgiveness

Hyper realistic pencil drawings of people you wish you could forget

Featherless doves in cages with the latches open,
offering their freedom to you a feather at a time

Sickly psalms coating the walls like wet silk
Like paper papermachet prayer
Like a piniata

Take a baseball bat to it
Lose your breath like a hallelujah

There is so much beauty inside of you
Every ugly moment
molded

I want to hang art in the vaulted ceiling of your chest

Get lost in the museum behind your *******....
 Feb 2013 shiloh
Jon Tobias
The answer sits awkward in my mouth
Like an Egyptian vowel
Some language I have yet to learn

And I stand like a third world country that there are no commercials for
There are no heartstrings to tug
No Sarah Mclachlan songs
No one sees the hunger
Building in the bellies of my motherless country

But if there must be indifference in this love
I want to love you more than you love me
 Feb 2013 shiloh
Sean Critchfield
There was no storm I couldn't weather.
Until you removed a single letter.
And yet again, you removed another.
And in the place of them, you see, you set the letter h and e.
And now that storm I couldn't weather,
became a game of whether or not that storm was me.

— The End —