Excerpt:
From “The Sinking Ship”
Only a fool tempts a fate he cannot
change or bargains with a sealed deal, when the
only choice left is to comply. Man
drowns as the ship sinks, if he only thinks
of the ship and not of saving himself.
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Excerpt from “The Favorite Daughter”
A true sacrifice is one given at
the loss of the one who is providing
the sacrifice…
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Excerpt from “A Prayer for Rain”
Peace is never without envy for the
hunger of power is never quelled by
the full belly, the bloat of satisfaction,
but solely by the act of conquest, the
acquisition of something that rest not
in your palms, but in someone else’s…
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Excerpt from “The Gorgon Awaits Her Fate”
“For sixteen years, the blood sun neither set
nor rose upon the basalt shores of
Sarpedon, where the gorgon slithered on
like a snake, her limbs and tail like a
scorpion, among the tombs she created”
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Excerpt:
But, the tree grew anyway,
healing from the switches
taken to its base,
growing during the rainy seasons
when we nourished it.
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Excerpt:
I dug deeper into the earth,
severing roots that were never fully connected,
ones that I thought that were a part of me.
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Excerpt:
my side of the garden endured,
as I scraped back bare soil:
the earth I once remembered,
the remnants of what I started with.
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Excerpt:
Matter weathered
by the elements,
crumbling like us,
to the ground,
where we both originated.
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Excerpt:
Alone,
a prisoner of my own making,
I allow you to keep me hostage…
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Excerpt:
I hold myself from the edge
not so you can be the one to save me,
but save myself from you.
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J.L. Smith 