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Those Places We Melt Into

What does it look like out your window? Out mine this spring flurry fills the gap between trees.
::: Published in QUIBBLE LIT:::

Posted bylindssandersSeptember 7, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Those Places We Melt Into

Big Talks with Big Brothers

I don’t want to tell him Joe Rogan isn’t a deity.
::: Published in DECOMP JOURNAL:::

Posted bylindssandersAugust 9, 2022September 8, 2022Posted inPoetryTags:PoetryLeave a comment on Big Talks with Big Brothers

Not Yours for Truth Seeking

Stop romanticizing fly fishing.
Don’t name yourself brother
to the sky’s white rattling throat.
::: Published in SCAPEGOAT REVIEW:::

Posted bylindssandersJuly 20, 2022July 20, 2022Posted inPoetryTags:PoetryLeave a comment on Not Yours for Truth Seeking

Yesterday I Worried About Money

Like all secrets, waiting in dusty corners to dart when the door doesn’t latch behind.

::: Published in PLAINSONGS :::

Posted bylindssandersJuly 11, 2022Posted inPoetryTags:PoetryLeave a comment on Yesterday I Worried About Money

Driving Directions: from Landlocked to Edge of Something

I drift west with the books that survived Marie Kondo.

::: Published in FEVER DREAM :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Driving Directions: from Landlocked to Edge of Something

Up into the Ocean

No one believes he has risen. Even the street-corner prophet
stops replacing his megaphone batteries.

::: Published in THE AVENUE :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Up into the Ocean

What to Do with Poems

I serve the ones who looked like me
using silver inlay plates that cannot be microwaved.

::: Published in FEVER DREAM :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on What to Do with Poems

Deploy

My grandfather’s fingerprints trace the pathway from the makeshift bedroom to the bathroom.

::: Published in THE AVENUE :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022March 14, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Deploy

Exoskeletons and Wolfpacks

Like the forest, we’re held together by web lines seen only when weight is shifted back and forth.

::: Published in FEVER DREAM :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Exoskeletons and Wolfpacks

Sorryoholics Anonymous

My name is daughter, wife, woman
and I am eroding into one reliance: sorry.

::: Published in THE AVENUE :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022September 8, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Sorryoholics Anonymous

#vanlife

It’s tiring:
calling everyplace home.

::: Published in FEVER DREAM :::

Posted bylindssandersMarch 9, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on #vanlife

Origin Story of a Divorce

I forget I was there, only five at the time. I like the story better without me in it.

::: Published in GYROSCOPE REVIEW :::

Posted bylindssandersJanuary 11, 2022March 14, 2022Posted inPoetryTags:PoetryLeave a comment on Origin Story of a Divorce

Quieting for Connection

Every story follows one of seven archetypes; Voyage and Return is most popular, followed by Rebirth.

::: Published in THE WONDROUSLY REAL MAGAZINE :::

Posted bylindssandersOctober 10, 2021Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Quieting for Connection

Home on Four Rubber Legs

Who owns the sentimentality I traded for cash.

::: Published in OPEN DOOR MAGAZINE :::

Posted bylindssandersOctober 10, 2021June 2, 2022Posted inPoetryLeave a comment on Home on Four Rubber Legs

VISITING BENNU

I’m not creative enough to think of who you would be at 43. Out of habit, I still try.

::: Published in RISING PHOENIX REVIEW :::

Posted bylindssandersOctober 24, 2020October 10, 2021Posted inPoetry
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