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In the Forest

  Sharing with The Sunday Muse #252. Come, this anniversary of the winter nap where the soft soil warms like stone And the summer bears a rolling fealty Weeping thunder above the ice Shearing sleep from breathless bones. Right now, I'm seriously behind on a draft for an early summer festival and struggling. Poetry might thin on the ground right now...but who can pass up the white wolf in the forest? -- Chrissa

Turning Away

  Sharing with The Sunday Muse #250 . Maybe. where the pollen falls i have been in love where the bees danced i have been in love where the thunder footfalls i have been in love where the steel has sung i have been in love violence has romanced my love away what kiss will wake the city now? 

Drown in the Mirage

  Sharing with The Sunday Muse #249. I.  His guitar set things on fire. Not Eric--he could feel the heat but it never singed his skin. It never got as hot as this Texas afternoon that burned his neck and baked through his suit and made the road he'd been stalking seem like an asphalt river barely held in place by the gravel and weeds. He couldn't keep in the guitar in a case but the sun didn't seem to hurt it, even if Eric sometimes remembered it was goblin-made.  That was an impossibility, though. He hadn't wanted to start a brushfire; walking in the sun in this suit was killing him. Sitting on the couch that had probably fallen from a truck seemed like a good idea. He'd discovered a folded sheet in his pocket, some rag full of tiny goblin advertisements, bluebonnet souls, cheap potions, gar-heart strings that prevented the dragon-gut fires...he closed his eyes. If he ignored the curious flames now reading over his shoulder, the growling couch, and the heat shimmer