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  January 2023     9 months ago

Submitted Poems 9 total

A gentler death

I keep your jacket
for the scent of home
and what that used to be
we mingle together
in the fabric
your scent and mine
like it used to be
but the wind is cruel
the rain is cruel
my body’s cruel
you evaporate
a ghost untethered,
a...

– by Jordan Phillips

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Wilt

drained from
hot tarry scabs
cauterized crusty cracks
upon the skin
broken in
false composure
painted over
a wrinkled face
lines erased
by ocean floods
of hidden tears
down the flumes
plucking plumes
unfeathered
doomed
and...

– by Jordan Phillips

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Still

My breath leaves a trail in the chill of midnight
The shadowed earth painted in pallid moonlight
The wind sings a song lacking rhythm or rhyme
I’m here all alone in this stillness of mine

I whistle along to the angular tune
That rises and...

– by Jordan Phillips

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Wilt

Blood drained from
hot tarry scabs
cauterized crusty cracks
upon the skin
broken in
false composure
painted over
a wrinkled face
lines erased
by ocean floods
of hidden tears
down the flumes
plucking plumes
unfeathered
doomed
and...

– by Jordan Phillips

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Reflections

These mirrors all reflect the places
I’ve already been
And somewhere in this mess of faces ;
My image bound in skin

I’m looking the jumbled pictures
Lost inside the glass
Alone between these crystal fixtures
Staring down the past

For...

– by Jordan Phillips

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