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Helen Miller’s Little Brother

Helen Miller’s Little Brother The bullies all around him must have seemed Like combine harvesters to someone wee Like autumn blossoms when the bastards teamed Up.  Gary, like a sweet weed in the scree Beneath a bing, somehow survived and found His way to my protection...

Adam’s Sweat

                 Adam’s Sweat His hair was colored like the soul of flares That curl up from licking flames.  Those arms Were lightly glorified by copper hairs Which magnified their swollen, manly charms. Warm major veins that ran along the bulge Of biceps there were...

A Planet with a Blue Star for its Sun

….A Planet with a Blue         Star for its Sun I should have brought blue roses for the man, Pale blue, dark blue or coloured like the sky. His grief is like the darkest navy span Of uniforms that sailors who comply With grave formality must wear.  Instead I...

Resurrection near Crucifixion

Resurrection near Crucifixion As near as Cana was to fasting in The desert, that is truth.  As near as wine And bread to Calvary—such is the skin ………. Of beauty stretched on flesh.  These facts define The absolutes.  Beside the drinking of The...

Puzzle

Puzzle “Right . . . what is my point? My point is simply that I love you, that we’re linked in some way that none of the others is linked.”                                                             ~Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil Of course I don’t remember this gilt...