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Conquered college: qualified to quell qualms

She She, cold blind and empty, moved and felt her own heart. There was, a curious thing forward, a beckoning speck ahead, Light. Illuminated movement, distance; her birth cave and the funnel path out. Pasted with air she coughed and sprawled, mouth in dewed grass, Stood up straight opened her eyes glued down upon a flawless circle spread of the colored visible; inhaling, gulping the sweet, clear invisible, Standing, everything graciously attached, under the first rising sun. She knew nothing,...

The moon was as thin as lightning on a warm and windy January night in Chattanooga, and throughout the hilly residential neighborhood on the north side of town, the power was waiting to drop out as the skeleton trees, emaciated witches, teased the measly power lines, arteries of progress. Inside the swinging doors of his screened-in porch, with narrowed eyes and nervous knees 30-year old Jude Calliston sat and stared suspiciously at a large, slick brown-recluse emerging from underneath the w...

I am a man who once said he could stand to settle down Made my bed beside the fire These days my eyes are stretchin’ beyond this settled town One last call for heroes… There was a redhead girl who liked to make her rounds She was a Superman collector I spied her wine soaked lies she was hidin’ underground, and I Didn’t have no bags to pack when I left I hit the mountain highways, ran the western sun I traded music for my bed Deep in the desert’s where I was my maker’s son, and I got high on C...

Flights of Dreams A twin sister with coffee skin and her brother – his hair looked like a bowling ball when it reflected the sun – lived on a cold island in the Northeast of what was once called The United States. The sky was still blue in those days, and underneath it the girl fished well with a spear made from a car axle; her brother was a clown who could walk on his hands and perform body contortions when she needed a laugh. Sister, what pictures do you see when you sleep? Me and you, and ...