Author Archives: jswaingrass78

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About jswaingrass78

Father, hardcore worker for the underserved. Sometimes I write.

face

described in a mirror, begging for crown torn like a sheet when crying, eyes present longed for in script, distraught in sweat rushed in crowd, expecting wanted in posters, angled by logic birthmarked in blue, oxygen redding at the crease … Continue reading

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when the falls come

you face it splintered eyes with vows hatching silver thatched chicks.  weep for the down, accept the triangled patterns of your pores.  stores are open, yaws jesting for advice.  give it to them but  don’t wince upon the catch, when … Continue reading

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travel me down

travel me down then miles or eyelashes the quicker the better because history has a way of tricks played against our better wishes and risk is the same; risk is your lips the play of sand against our hands in … Continue reading

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confederate widow

–Author’s Note: This one needs more work but it’s off to an interesting start. confederate widow she reminded him of a confederate widow, dressed in grief and valor shaded by southern points demarcated by spanish moss and inherited lightning.  the heat … Continue reading

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on rain

on rain the rain has broken.  the interrogation was indeterminate, an unfixed missile with split contrails guided only by his shakedown of the clouds. his intent was to identify facsimiles and starve out imposters laying claim to melancholy. this is … Continue reading

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actuality

actuality was his heart discovered, (at last) or was it left in its destroyed womb, a capillary burst waging iron against equations? perhaps it was born too late, this heart, forever jousting against some wooly beast gnawing at arteries. or … Continue reading

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pattern

pattern where or what and you began. or was it begot or begat? all the same, i walked the circuits of your toes, their digits talking of flotsam or jetstreams that same greenish hue of cornstalks waddling in air you … Continue reading

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Breaking Hiatus

Hi out there, I’ve taken a small hiatus from blogging for the last couple of months.  Will be back with some fresh stuff here shortly. Right now, I’m watching my three year old dance a mad dance as she chases … Continue reading

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Pond Song

Pond Song A necklace of evening smoke plys its trade on her collarbones, mudhens swirl in the ebb jaws of pond water. “i thought they were coots,” she says, lolling her hair and a coyote brushes its thicket. Cattails nod … Continue reading

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since when

since when since when does lightning attempt to make a reservation online? that seems counter intuitive and likely to fry circuits and all other sorts of unpleasant things. are my fingers insulated with polyethylene or am i missing something here? … Continue reading

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