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Catwalk

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Pisces-Iscariot on

From: thefarqueue.blogspot.com

Symphony in Green ~ Jeremy Geddes You wore your heart upon your sleeve; a style long out of fashion You drove yourself to the water’s edge, the sea intent on crashing You grit your teeth and split your lip and spoke with forked tongue twisting Of all the woes and wanderlust and interstitial bitching You raised your arm to hail the chief but found his wonder wanting Laid your palm on fur-decked hide whose thirst had gone to panting Who sized you up for an overcoat with lining laced in entrails Took your measure and just for luck wrote down your banking details The ... Read Full Story

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Escape Velocity

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Pisces-Iscariot on

From: thefarqueue.blogspot.com

Rosemary Laing ~ Flight Research #6 (1999) Take me with you when you fly Sign my name upon your eye In smoke and blood and cauldron dye Hope returns the weeping sky Take me with you when you dye My name upon the weeping sky While smoke and mirrors trick the eye And cause the days to faster fly Take me with you, blink your eye Tomorrow into the past does fly My name is writ on cauldron sky And days are coloured in weeping dye Take me with you, take my eye Past the fields and feathered sky My name is cast, an ... Read Full Story

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It Does Not Matter

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coram on

From: joyfulbits.blogspot.com

It does not matter what the skeptics say, For I'll continue to watch and pray; I know it was His voice that I heard, When I read and believed His Holy word; His Holy Spirit resides in me, Protecting my soul and keeping me free; Skepticism is of the mind of the flesh, A haunting foe determined to crush; But not this soul of mine, Will I allow skepticism to bind; Now I'm free as the roots of a tree, Running l o n g and growing deep; I know in whom and what I believe, The blood of Jesus washed my sins away ... Read Full Story

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Days Between Stations

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From: thefarqueue.blogspot.com

Spark Sleep dust shed from eyes like sand from the cannon cast The light dispels the shadows of night You rise to face the day’s charade Sunrise Sunspots on your astral shirt induce the drawing of aurora curtains across your mind Thus occluding the view afforded By sleep’s access to the vaults of memory Morning Mourners gather to line the streets pale witness To the black crate bearing wagon passing, parading the town’s inability to feel, Only to whisper grey with knuckles white clenched behind backs Noon Monuments in the square corrode in silence unconnected to the day’s events Verdigris veins forming on the ... Read Full Story

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Award-Winning UI Alumni Share Nature-Inspired Works

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weepingskies on

From: www.twinartspoetry.com

The Daily Iowan Award-winning UI alumni share nature-inspired works By Rebecca Koons, September 24, 2009 The simplest and most complex things can inspire poetry. A distinctive talent is necessary to craft a work that not only makes sense but has greater meaning. Two graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop have turned this talent into a satisfying career. Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz will share their works at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. today. Both Stanley and Savitz drew initial influence in the realm of poetry from various styles of music. Savitz was, throughout her life, surrounded by the musical ... Read Full Story

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