By Joshua David Ling … Over the last chapters of this story, / We saw heroes and heroines in fantastic glory. / From Cyrus the Cyclone, to Bobby the Magician. / To William the Knight, and Amira the bless’d twin…
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By Sarah Losardo … Falling from grey skies / In big flakes, / Really coming down…
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By Joshua David Ling … But I hear her evil calling me. / And I cannot turn away. / Save me please, oh Marlynn, my angel! / Please show me the way!
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By Joshua David Ling … Three Knights stood in her room spread out, / One grabbed her mouth from behind. / She tried to fight back as best she could, / But this plan was perfectly designed. / She suddenly felt tired and looked down to see / A needle in her arm.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…
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By Joshua David Ling … A purple mist filled the room as William grabbed his sword Knox. / He stood by the doorway, fully prepared, because he had no locks.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Happy children playing in a roadside ditch / Barefoot and laughing in shorts and tees / A boy grabbing up a frog to frighten the girls/ A girl sloshing the boys with a bucket of muck
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By Michael Stalcup … Glory be to God for appled things
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Little children attend the school of Creation: / A stick, a caterpillar upon a leaf / A pine nut spiraling down upon its wing / A yellow butterfly dancing autumn in
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … I read that today is Hobbit Day / On the autumn equinox every year…
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … In a better America this would be the first day of school – / Labor Day is for swimming in the creek / For a sunburn, for a catfish spine in your heel / For sandwiches and sand and ants and fun
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By Samantha Terrell … I bless you with will and water, but / you thrash and writhe in its small spray.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The washing machine baptizes our busy days: / A shirt freshly stained with this morning’s coffee / Wrinkledy tees in grimy greens and greys / A child’s blue jeans all sticky with toffee
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … After the Order of Saint Joseph, all men are fathers / Commanded by God to protect all children / Permitted by God to protect all children / Empowered by God to protect all children
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Latins and Sabines may have watched for smoke / From the Vatican Hill across the way / Wondering if a careless shepherd had set a fire / Beyond the Seven Hills of holy Rome
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dear Will, / About your obsession with mortality: / Transitions and death are essentials in life / And we must face the obsequies of ashes or earth / But there are other topics upon which to write
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … We have mysterious runic messages still / Appearing this morning – there, on the road – see them?
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The seasons pass and footsteps pass, leaves fall / But nothing changes for those frozen in place / By the decrees of stasis and stagnancy / Progress blocked by torpidity and time
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By Jordan Ellis Christensen … In the netherness of my person / A fine instrument I do possess. / From which trumpets fine tonal arson. / Such odorous notes I oft obsess.
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By Amanda Pizzolatto … Hush little darling, don’t say a word
I will tell you about the Mother of our Lord / And how one day a great angel came / Surprising her by calling her by name…
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