PostsCommentsPayoutscarmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agomy car was towed on a Tuesday [Day 34]my car was towed on a Tuesday “Street Cleaning” says the harbinger, a sign crudely zip-tied to a weathered…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoPaint Me the Singing Wilderness [Day 33]I had buried the sun into the earth, the moon, nestled tight in clouded dream, my cat left curled before the hearth…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoLight Bulbs are Not Answers, They Are Questions [Day 32]There is a curdle of cheese curdling into smaller beady-eyed mice beneath the benevolent hallow girth of my…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoSupport Your Local Labyrinth [Day 30]A small bird is perched on the askew lid of a trashcan, an outpouring of love and use in the alley behind my…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoA Single Bronze Sandal [Day 29]been walking slower of late letting eyes linger like snow in April keeping pace with kicked stones, Sisyphus…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoModels Hold the Paint for Bus Stop Graffiti Icons [Day 28]Models Hold the Paint for Bus Stop Graffiti Icons Don't follow fashion buy something already out of date. April…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoTheodicy [Day 27]Blue lines stretch coursing blood through firmament pencil sketches, guided hands thumbing through the tabbed…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoThey Grow Layers of Life [Day 26]They grow layers of life without you, a chthonic mark to imprint, a sessile archaism reserved for tenure…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agowell scuffed ball [Day 24]no one understands the end of…carmalain7 (53)in #music • 6 years agoCaleb Scofield, Metal Musician and Trailblazer (Cave In, Old Man Gloom, Zozobra) Passes Away at 39To support Caleb's surviving family, his wife Jen and two children, Sydney (7) and Desmond (10) with funeral expenses…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoYour Favorite Stars Are Just Phantom Limbs [Day 23]We are all puzzles, hands fumbling at crooked lines mouthing a smile out an alligator jaw; your knee, bent like…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoGehenna [Day 22]I could force a sound accepting yawp or barbaric sigh the most…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoStatic [Day 21]Smudges and Smears The newspaper is illegible: serif crop circle smudges from heaven;…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoNovalis [Day 20]the blue flower springs splitting caulk and brick like a chisel hammer striking steel, blue with clouds…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoGodspeed [Day 19]Liberty cracked the bell peals appealing to silver peddlers propping poems on the sill propping a canary to…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoof the Beholder [Day 18]A flower petal graces a plate, a spot of color at the center of your eye finds a center in the white, pupil…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoWaldo [Day 17]there is a chicken carcass in the alley, a lost ugly ducking who tumbled off the pallet into a bed of satin…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoLost Signals and Recalculating [Day 16]Check into the room promptly throw your key away, swallow all your pride before asking for free toiletries…carmalain7 (53)in #poetry • 6 years agoCelibacy is the New Ecstasy [Day 15]The moon stalks the stars, high heeled pacing contrarian, whips a strapped sun behind closed curtains; candle wax…carmalain7 (53)in #twbpoetrycontest • 6 years agoPlainclothes Prophets [Day 14]I write your name, a mark on the proverbial chalkboard, a self-imposed discipline or a natural selection…