8Jan 2022 Jeffrey Park

RAPID TEST

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True/False/Not mentioned in the text, the rabbit died, never felt a thing, could still walk a straight line and read the bottom row A C D P B T fit... Read More
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Can’t teach to this test. Gotta learn as you go. – mh clay

27Apr 2021 Jeffrey Park

ELEMENTAL

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Your love is hard-edged, electrically charged, a roiling mass of chemical interactions, carrying with it the promise of a swollen tongue and hard-cramping muscles. I watch helplessly as my limbs... Read More
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I will be your pork rind if you will be my fire. Sweet crackle and spit. – mh clay

8Jan 2020 Jeffrey Park

TINNITUS

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A vague diagnosis with a thousand and one possible causes. I soothe myself by saying it’s just the voices in my head urging me to do heinous unthinkable things, but... Read More
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Especially if Sparky tends to succumb to those unthinkable things. – mh clay

3Nov 2018 Jeffrey Park

THIS IS IT

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This is the thing, the core, the white-hot molten heavy metal at the center of it all. This is the moment of truth or consequences and you really don’t want... Read More
28Oct 2017 Jeffrey Park

DEEP PURPLE

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You have to imagine a color darker than black, swirls without movement, reflections of alien landscapes beyond human conception, and all in glorious stereo – two sultry eyes, two things... Read More
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Love by hypnosis; captured into co-dependence. – mh clay

18Sep 2016 Jeffrey Park

Aglio E Olio

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The torrid sizzle of their meeting could have easily resulted in a lifetime of congealed regret, but fortunately for the olive oil, in today’s online economy revirgination is only a... Read More
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There’s an app for everything. (Read another of Jeffrey’s jabs on his page, about a dog’s life – check it out.) – mh clay

18Sep 2016 Jeffrey Park

Wilding

Bite teeth to bone worry work for your meal mark walk don’t run nose to dirty glass growl drool limp home roll in stench watch the old man on the... Read More
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Not so far from the dog. That old man could bite, too. – mh clay

18Jul 2015 Jeffrey Park

THE EDGE

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Explorer some might call him or seeker, peeping tom, rattler at locks, one who charges full tilt to the end of the earth, leaps and stretches and slices his finger... Read More
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Follow the explorer, seeker; peep and rattle. It’s the only way to know what lies beyond the mist… – mh clay
1Oct 2014 Jeffrey Park

SAHARAN SUNSET

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Solitary uninterested in love politics world events the thousand-year camel stands delicately balanced on his own elongated shadow and spits into the fiery sunset just for the ephemeral thrill of... Read More
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A ruminant’s take on the Middle East conflict; a spit and a sizzle. – mh

9May 2014 Jeffrey Park

ARTS & CRAFTS

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Dedicated, single-minded he saves all the bones from every thing he eats, cleans them, dries them, fits them together into intricate new patterns that he says live within the bones... Read More
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Though all gotta suffer, not all gotta starve. – mh