Excerpt: We were supposed to come back
by the bridge,
before the guitar solo,
but the resolution never found
its third verse.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
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Cast Out of Eden: Low Tide
Excerpt: I stand in silence
waiting for you
and the high tide
to sweep it all away.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Cast Out of Eden: What Can’t Be Saved
Excerpt: He fumbles on with broken feet,
forever broken,
as I watch it all,
knowing that I can’t save him.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Cast Out of Eden: The Painting
Excerpt: All that you wanted it to be:
imperfect,
crooked,
but perfect in a happy way.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Cast Out of Eden: Photograph
Excerpt: When you smear your finger
over the glass corner,
notice the crack,
and dare not tell her
that imperfections are present.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Cast Out of Eden: My House of Usher
Excerpt: . . . its quite beauty,
an attempt to run away,
but afraid to do so:
forever frozen in contemplation.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
Cast Out of Eden: Words
Excerpt: I breathe not your oxygen,
but the words that fill the gap between us,
cutting off my breath,
forever leaving me gasping for air.
Cast Out of Eden is available at Politics and Prose at https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781624292323
