8Aug 2018 Chigger Matthews

(for the lost)

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I’m riding on wires before my enemies wake up to sweat the demons out in holy water a waiting game between me and the devil in me Read More
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Can’t find a confessor when everyone’s a transgressor. (There’s another, for polite dinner conversation, on Chigger’s page – check it out.) – mh clay

8Aug 2018 Chigger Matthews

(for people who laugh at death)

children at the table next to mine are singing everybody dies! everybody dies! stabbing each other in the ribs with plastic spoons laughing until tears stream down their faces Read More
26May 2018 Chigger Matthews

The Fall of An Ancient Order

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the Masons released a demon in Salina, Kansas captive at the Temple of fez-hatted ghosts hostage of chicken little the sky isn’t falling fast enough - ghost hope into the... Read More
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A rare reaving; riches rendered into something greater than 30. (We welcome Chigger to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of his madness on his new page – check it out.) – mh clay

17Dec 2017 Chigger Matthews

Lines I Stole from Better Poets

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from Notes (Mad Swirl September 6th, 2017) Past the present tenses Taking care of the Folks Down there Everybody is welcome up here I need a friend Cigarettes and regrets... Read More
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If you had been there, it would have been just like this. Thanks, Chigger! – mh clay

21May 2017 Chigger Matthews

To my child-eyes

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from The Baseball Key To my child-eyes The gear looked like knights' armor. The implicit danger of the aptly titled foul tip and My nads covered by a reinforced plastic... Read More
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From a knight of the no-hitters. – mh clay