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  November 2022     1 year ago

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Esta nevando

Another December in Arizona, Dad…somewhat of a season, skinny saguaros, silent sentinels casting tattle tell shadows, they spell out the selfish summer months and I know that our droughts were different, never sent you the picture album like I...

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Semi-retired

Part I

You're a 45 pound sledge, to the stomach
For sure
A rubber semi-truck tire, on fire
One must strike to survive
Just to goddamn bounce back from
An all too familiar plummet for me, anymore
I wrote this, I made you

You’re driving...

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I never look down in a port-o-john

Disappointing, expected, me thinks you to be mall walkers, empty wallets, synthetic purchased aesthetic and ripe with dumpster ethics, so frame and hang your fucking M,C. Escher - an egalitarian armada of self driven Kias will arrive at a...

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Hollow, Stump, Hidden, Still

My letters you’ve known, you’ve known me, jagged, jetties, my letters always killed, you’ve known me - whether typewritten prose or stumped utterances drug over with a knife - it’s overdue, expectant, it’s unwritten, for you, to you, and I know it,...

– by Cannon Stewart Daughtrey

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John, I am so grateful to you for reading my work and offering your thoughts. Your comment means more than you’ll likely ever know, thank you.

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