30Jun 2014 Jhon Baker

bohemia

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booze the way old men like it – a touch of class (random lines skipped over) if this were another time there would be volumes of poetry of your aspect,... Read More
editors note:

It’s all twinkling; even brighter in the glints off the ice cubes in the bottom of the glass. – mh

4May 2013 Jhon Baker

gasoline

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ashes and firelighters, gasoline the remnants of an unstable mind medicated rational. caught in the act of writing and morning coffee vouchsafed in early afternoon. dreaming, in sleep looking down... Read More
editors note:

Absolution: Divine solution, or grand illusion? A question well raised here. Thanks, Jhon! – mh

11Jul 2012 Jhon Baker

thinking of Micael
For MC

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make no monument to this body, let the rivers and roads winding on maps and fields flowing into one another from the birds view of a plane serve as testament.... Read More
editors note:

No one soul may pass without all souls singing the loss. Pass on; live on. – mh

9May 2011 Jhon Baker

within reach

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cup of coffee, fresh made. pencil, mechanical 0.5mm leads. about 200 sheets of paper left in the ream, hunting knife with a five-inch blade. page a day calendar with the... Read More
23Feb 2011 Jhon Baker

Sylvia part 1

I listen to your voice, late November, reliving a moment long worn away by time's passing and memory. did you mean to see it out, taste of poison fruits? or... Read More
23Feb 2011 Jhon Baker

the memory

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she couldn't read what it said or whom it was for the memory only contained the sudden image from an antique shop or estate sale it was forgotten now where... Read More
10Jan 2011 Jhon Baker

soup

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I don’t cook soup often and it bothers me to have to do it I don’t know why maybe it’s that I don’t eat soups unless they are served to... Read More