A Pearl in its Shell

01/05/202001/02/2020 by: Angela Braru

A Pearl in its Shell

Up up up,My eyes can’t see your faceBut in your warm embraceI find my happy place.Your arms hold me inAnd I smile from withinFor you …

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01/05/202001/01/2020 by: David O'Nan

Clearly! (c) David L O’Nan

This piece was written circa 2005 during the Bush administration. I was frustrated as much as I am currently with how the world was circling. …

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01/05/202001/03/2020 by: Stapleton Nash

june 05 2016

i am gathering up a jury of dead things; some you killed and some that died to make room for you. those dead things, they …

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01/05/202001/04/2020 by: Angela Braru

Eve’s Satan

Satan’s spawn goes on and onDid I really want him gone?No, no indeedNot at this time of need.He saw me bleed and bleedBut didn’t take …

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01/03/202001/10/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Weekly Feature | Another Day in America, by Courtney LeBlanc

Once a man with a gun tucked into a side holster walked by my table. I was eating brunch, was mid-sip of my mimosa. …

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01/02/202001/02/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #11 | Speaking Calmly to America, by Michael Edwards

Original text, the current White House Occupant’s six page letter
written to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she declared his impeachment. We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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01/01/202001/10/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #10 | Evolution, by Hokis

Text from the page 4 of the Occupant’s letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after she declared his impeachment. We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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12/31/201901/07/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Amplify the Children | We Are, by Spirit Moon

We are Thousands of stories interrupted We have wings to build Lives to live Love to experience You have brought that to a screaming …

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12/31/201901/10/2020 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #9 | We keep them in a certain place, by Erin Russell

Original text, Donald Trump “God is the Ultimate.” We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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12/30/201912/30/2019 by: Hokis, Senior Editor

Erasure the Occupant #8 | Washing 2019, by Jennifer Edwards

I keep going back to the burning words in yellow: our country, us, oaths, America.

We accept all Erasure the Occupant submissions. Visit our submission page for details.

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12/29/201912/26/2019 by: Jodie Hare

Open arms

I can’t define the connection that I seek / I think I’ll know it when I see it / It will open its doors to …

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12/29/201912/26/2019 by: Mark Mayes

St Wulstan’s

This nature reserve was once an infirmary for American soldiers, then a TB sanatorium in the fifties, finally a psychiatric unit from sixty-one until asylum …

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