Tag: self
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Monster
It must exist in the closet or under the bed with musty fur that throws jagged shadows, knows the fears that you keep intimately inside, be all mouth, claw, tooth, full of all hungers, and oh, it must be large, LARGE!- and THICK- the fallen image of a once ancient space, the guardian at the…
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In the Midst of the Snowy Forest
(After Major Jackson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/major-jackson#tab-poems)The shadows of pines on the snow cast their canvas.The Downy Woodpecker stabbing beak carves wordsthat my pen cannot equal into the January morning.Her chirping is filled with a feasting frenzy resolve for the beetle larvae beneath the bark.I look, but even with my wood-boring eyes I cannot interrogate beyond the known:…