Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 17, 2012
Flat bottom ferry
Pushes through the rippled bay
Snow capped Mount Baker
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 16, 2012
Have you unpacked your heart’s
Carefully ribboned boxes
Kisses received
Kisses never given
Unspoken hopes
Mourned lost loves
Irrevocably turned backs
Friendships ended in a word
Perhaps it is time
To untie every ribbon
Empty every box and
Open your heart
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 15, 2012
Words scratch mortality’s surface
Imprint prose and poems
Many lost to indifferent time
Lost to wanton destruction
To hide unsavory truths
Of our shared inhumanity
To crush heretical insights
That might undermine
Privileged mandates
From Calvin’s God
Hindu determined castes
Monarchical utterances
As if they might save the day
Nothing saves the day
Carpe Diem
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 14, 2012
No father at fifth birthday
No father at graduation
No father at wedding
No father at kid’s births
So I tried out for the part
Wowed the producer
Writer and director
Fellow cast members
And played him ever sense
In this long running play
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on August 11, 2012
The lamp only made the darkness visible
Everywhere except the corner where it
Sat on a narrow wooden table
That once held candles
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