Loose Words Letter #36
Raw by Jonathan Greene

“Stretched thin

tattered with redness

because I don’t tan

and the sun isn’t shining

and my skin is burning

from the heat of my own gaze”

Vexation by Mary Jones

“I’m knocked down again,

Falling into the pieces of the plate

Bleeding from a wound no one can see

Yet the vexation is there

Luring me backward every time”

A Bedding of Algae by Ana-Maria Schweitzer

“My eyes sore beneath the silky eyelids.

I pray to the waves:

come and swing me,

make my repose

into a bedding of algae.”

Nightmares by Fọlábòmí Àmọ̀ó

“You are special

for the monsters

do not haunt

your peaceful heart.”

Our Blombos Cave by Bradley J Nordell

“Swaying mystery without an edge

and yet there it was all along

in our paintings and songs

blazing stars of the primary fire,

drawn in the blood of the first hunt”
['Jonathan Greene']
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