20Dec 2025 Royal Rhodes

SUMMER AT WALDEN

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I live, only to change, and then change completely seeking rapture in lightning like a love-ache. Thought brought torture. Nothing saves. Hold it yourself. Water annihilates even stone, as soft... Read More
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We all come round the pond, with love, or without. – mh clay

25Dec 2024 Royal Rhodes

CANTICLE – in tempore belli

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"I heard the bells on Christmas Day" -- a line my mind repeats along the fabled Brattle Street, the poet's home the city sign identifies, whose son was lost in... Read More
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Yes! This present we request for every presence. – mh clay

31Oct 2024 Royal Rhodes

THE HAUNTING

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At odd hours, day and night, these figures crowd inside my house. I can feel the desires they keep hidden. I tell myself to try to be calm -- that... Read More
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Even the dead get spooked. – mh clay

8Jun 2024 Royal Rhodes

FORGETTING

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"Si non meminero tui..." It happened again today. I forgot a word I needed, and it did not reappear as I waited for it to come like expecting a phantom... Read More
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Where we recall no name, there will be nobody. (We welcome Royal to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of his madness on his new page – check it out.) – mh clay

1Mar 2024 Royal Rhodes

MYTHOGRAPH

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There were dragons here the oldest ones sang out to us and the youngest repeated in their dreams. Above the windblown oaks that raised banner arms on the nearby slopes... Read More
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They live in our landscape, as will we… – mh clay

11Apr 2023 Royal Rhodes

Black Rain

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clouds dissolve after pretending to be recognizable shapes and the twilight woods untended fill with life I heard the wings singing of dry shell insects they emerged slender, undressed to... Read More
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Still, we seek them in those old woods. – mh clay