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With a book to read and a bite to eat

I plagiarize my wounds

The stone archway is a shelter from the rain

Through Old England searching

Voices arguing in the distance

Clomping hooves on the bridge overhead

Yellow lamps

Their light desperately reaching out

Through the bursting torrents of water

Thunder owls howl through the atmosphere

Lightning fingers the sky

Wrecked sparks, flame throwers

The crackling, spackling of ice blue

A white stone house

Black rooftop

Mailbox on a post

Red geraniums in the windows

Like lipstick-colored doll heads

A welcoming walkway

A knock on the door

A streak of lightning answers

But nobody is home

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Special thanks to Edge of Humanity Magazine for publishing three of my poems recently: Coffee Shop Rain, The Translucent Wander Pain, and Space Curtain. Please go check them out! Also, a reminder that my new e-book is now available for purchase: The Apocalypse Pipe. The print edition is also now available! Thanks for reading and supporting independent creators.