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Thisman Junior Member
since 2003-01-21
Posts 19 |
a november daybreak in my sixth year in the back of my uncle's battered ford my sister clings to me and weeps silently uncle frank is not happy he furrows his brow and stares straight ahead he has been summoned from blessed sleep two hours away by the sheriff mama has run off drunk in the front seat aunt alice is emptying creamer packages into her coffee then stuffing them into the ashtray where, shortly, they will smolder outside across a frost-bleached meadow a coyote has climbed atop a haystack no one else will see him a moment breaks loose from time I feel myself there with him I feel the cold hay beneath me I smell the crisp autumn air I watch the car slip past into the unknowable aunt alice is trying to tune in a gospel station a wail is working it's way out of my sister I try to hold it in by squeezing her hands a whisp of smoke is curling from the ashtray uncle frank looks as if someone is twisting a knife in his gut any minute now all hell will break loose again |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
A very well written and intense read full of powerful imagery and thought! This reminds me of something that would be required reading in a private high school or college -- and that's a compliment! Very well done & leaves me curious to know more... -MVS You CAN make a difference: |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes, what Mark said. Great imagery, and transportation of the writer to the coyote. More, please! |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Too good to pass up this quickly -- back to the top! -MVS You CAN make a difference: |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
ThisMan~ Such a compelling read~ You brought forth the realism so expertly that I wanted to hold the children in safe arms~ Welcome to Passions ... I will look for more of your postings~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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SharaRose Member Elite
since 2003-07-19
Posts 2501Somewhere out there~ |
Wow this reminds me of those car rides when no one speaks all the way home. Yikes...this was sooooooooooo like being there. Terri~  |
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