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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#1030015 added April 3, 2022 at 8:33pm
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My Bunker
Bedding that soothed a sweaty head served
many purposes when I needed to avoid him
in the bunkbed or wall closet, with blanket bus
or fortress of solitude in plaster, devouring
well worn comics, and Brach's pix-a-mix
stolen from her secret stash in the cupboard.

However, in memory, no more is that sanctuary.

The freshest escape, summer day, true freedom
came beneath the clothesline with her wooden pins.
This woman who saved me from a dark cell, savior,
with bleached skin and heavy fragrance breathing
from her bosom, sheltered me within musty
comforters and quilts to never be found.

I celebrate, a solitary boy, absorbing filtered light,
within the actions of painted panels with heroes
made green, made of stone, ugly outside like
the boy dreamed his reality until soft delusion.
Wherever I tack my sheets, safely divided from him.


Quill Nominated Best Poetry Collection two consecutive years, 2020 and 2021.

"Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

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