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Lana Bella
Hongri Yuan
Lyn Lifshin
Duane Locke
Elisavietta Ritchie
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Fahredin Shehu
Laszlo Slomovits
Andy N
Alex Ferde
Lekan Alesh
Michael Lee Johnson
Running Cub
Ali Znaidi
Silvia Scheibli
Robert Nisbet
Richard Gartee
Amit Parmessur
Jennifer Burd
Paul B. Roth
Sanjeev Sethi
Keith Moul
Arjun Dahal
Alan Britt
Richard Lynch
Fred Wolven
Eddie Awusi
Joanie Freeman
Hongri Yuan
Amit Shankar Saha
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Francis Ferde
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--editor / Southeastern Florida
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Black jagged glass
Covers the window
Closing the gap
Between then and now
Slipping between worlds
Like a sentence of silence
In-between dim light
Lost in blood red fog
Glittering in camouflaged stares
Refracting recurring themes
Guilt coined in time
Double locked on doors
Taking memories
By the hand
With down turned fists
Hammering in your thoughts
Leaving you thinking
It could have easily been you
Spasming there
Behind closed doors.
STRING BLEEDING ANSWERS
Moving in-between doors
I kiss both sunrise and sunset
Embracing both
In knotted smiles
Placing wisdom
Into borrowed ladders
Schooling myself in patience
Investing my life in wisdom
Rehearsing nothing
But dissolved feelings
Seeking new adventures
String bleeding answers
THE HIGHWAYMAN’S DAUGHTER
Right up until the end
You used to come home
Hiding your pistols and gunshot
Under the floorboards
Blurring stories
Into rambling narratives
Where you and the master
Had been for the past few days
Before drowning yourself
Silently in cheap ale
Until you passed out
Into a concerned fear
Cut up from guilt
Synchronized in drunkenness
With a tempter
Cutting through your conscience
Lurking in the shadows
Whenever we crossed the forest
Hiding under the moonlight
Next to the river
Galloping away with your eyes
Loosening your thoughts
Over the flush of the forest
And the moors
Listening out constantly
For wheels crushing in the shadows
Bathed in subconscious
Like a jackal in the night
And a spring
Of obscene language
Every time mother shouted out
The master was here.
Andy N, Stetford, Manchester, UK