Poetry

"...Why fear a darkness without leopards?..."

"...as I travel towards an unknown future...

"...you either have it or you die..."

"...I find myself in the kitchen asking for mercy..."

"...I appreciate how much he's missed..."

"...A dreary, sodden celebration..."

"He tilled his land, Fed family of four..."

"...Run as if you have torched the touchy tail Of a lion..."

"...I thought that it was a picture he would like to have..."

Wayne Russell is or has been many things in his 48 years on this planet; he has been a creative writer, world traveler, graphic designer, former soldier, and former sailor.

"...and today ghost wandering tattooed through my house..."

"...quite a sight to behold..."

"...Frame of mind determines the vocabulary..."

"...This whole megillah is so PC...."

"...He said that meant I knew he was going to die..."

"...She excelled to the chagrin of loathers..."

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"...diffracted, now we're laser-interacted..."

"...these days are on the tips of my fingers..."

"... You are taken aback as you see reflections..."

"...not in the streets or the bars downtown..."

"...I felt no regrets or worries over tomorrow..."

"... there was a calm like never before..."

"...what else did he really expect?.."

"...sizzled like bacon on the grill..."

"...To pretend that poverty is shrinking is stupidity ..."

"Night is drifters..."

"...white chieftain of the broken bones..."

"...to miss those hands entwined..."

"...In my mind, there's an auditorium..."