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  There Is A World Beneath Your Wings

  

  By redfer, Tucson, AZ

  There is a world beneath your wing I am tucked under a fan of feathers. You are my red-breasted bird, a tremulous heartbeat under my hands, Infinite, hard, onyx eyes whispering of other, older worlds. I rest in your down, close to your chest, and hear the uttering of a song deep between your r...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  The Rose

  

  By redfer, Tucson, AZ

  As rain falls down like shards of glass, breaking O’er a city now sleeping, waiting now. Luminous streetlights, stars piercing, waking. Rebuff the storm; no hint of spite allow. Forgo the spir’t of obsequ’ous feigning. Sprout beneath shambles; flowers under ash. Washing ‘way oscilla...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Pre-Present-Post

  

  By redfer, Tucson, AZ

  Eyes squint then open under a fluorescent hospital light. Why do WE cry, scream, with our first waking breath. First grade seems like innocence is walking on thin, brittle, ice. And then : Second Third Fourth And Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth And Ninth Growing Ten...
• Poetry > Haiku
  What Is War?

  

  By redfer, Tucson, AZ

  War is nothing more Than old men fighting old men. And the young die young....
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Conquerer

  

  By redfer, Tucson, AZ

  In my history book there are old paintings of times that people are sure existed and photographs of graven faces that prove the burden of life. I stare at a map and wonder how they know where Julius Caesar’s army walked, where exactly the Black Plague spread, why exactly wars start. I know I’m s...