By Cornelius Eady
Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,Some type of supernatural creature.My mother would tell...
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- By Cheryl ClarkeI could use a good ole R&B lyric right about now to face this hard absence. Only its terse verse can...
- By Salima RiveraDied: Our vows to love, honor, and cherish. Time: Left suddenly on a bright summer day Cause of Death...
- By Stacie CassarinoI admired the sea, most days, but not the heirs or millionaires sailing in stiff-capped winds, buttoned...
- By Susan BrowneDown the lane winding between & behind houses, I find the cottage I rented after I left Michael, he ...
- By Diane SeussSome women make a pilgrimage to visit it in the Indiana library charged to keep it safe. I didn’t drive...
- By Justin Phillip ReedDoes a man with no intentions know he means you only harm? If lodged in the scar were a pearl of such...
- By UnknownIt's as if someone should give a gift to my people— they will kill him if he comes to the troop. It ...
- By UnknownLeodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife; willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelic is us...
- By T. S. EliotI Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself — as it will seem...
- By Hoa NguyenA student at the military school 1956 and a literary teacher at the nearby high school fall in love ...
- By Alina StefanescuToday I wept with the kids as we drove the dirt roads, grass greener than ever. I felt it closed. The...
- By Josh Alex BakerI ask when is the last time you returned yourself to yourself. I am a hypocrite to make you answer what...
- By Michaella Batteni. i am sitting in sunday school in a handsewn pink dress and white lace tights i am putting my hand...
- By Iliana RochaMorning dragonflies tricked by the sliding glass door, scattered on the porch like cigarettes torn in...
- By Iliana Rocha1. In A Kiss Before Dying, Robert Wagner pushes his girlfriend off a roof, making it look like suicide, in order...
- By Romeo OriogunThe room smelled of sex, marijuana and cough syrup. The soft voice of Asa filled my ears. He said, blue...
- By Christopher MalecWe met at Burger King... so I thought I could have us my way If I had known you were gonna drive through...
- By Luisa A. IgloriaThere were some things I often had no words or explanations for till after the fact of their experiencing...
- By Anne Carson"Devil's share" is the portion of one's goods that cannot be usefully spent and so gets sacrificed. ...