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Nov 2, 2020

Watcher Under The Table – A Poem By Carol J Forrester

Exhausted, your prostate yourself,legs aloft and crooked,chin tilted towards some ceiling corneras if to suggest you were focusedon anything...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 29, 2020

Jörmungandr – A Poem By Carol J Forrester

I’ll start at the toes,short,and not quite in jointwith one another. Pause around the ankles.Suckle themlike gobstoppersto the marrow....

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 27, 2020

Age Old Tradition – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

I should have taken that course,the one with the guywho builds drystone walls up northfor the farmers who have...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 26, 2020

The Year After Last – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Squirming at the pumpkin guts, your hands scooped into ladles, spooning palmfuls of seed and sludge. We took desert...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 22, 2020

Bubble-Wrap Knuckles – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Fireworks popping off underneath skin,an explosions against the brickwork.Blood so bright it burns my retinasand when I dreamed I...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 20, 2020

A Clever And Cruel Man – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

You and your dim accuracy,head lolled loose eyes whitened and widenedtill the pupils blink out.Words come clipped,ransomed love lettersread...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 19, 2020

Fox In The Hen House – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Their heads bob like drinking birds,of course, of course, of course.Necks pulled up from their collar bones.I have never...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 13, 2020

Late Cropping Raspberries – A Poem By Carol J Forrester #DVersePoets

Last of the soft fruits,these blooms are redder, fatter,skins splitting sticky on a palm.Drew my tongue along a lifeline,caught...

by Carol J Forrester

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Nov 9, 2020

The Walls Whistle – Flash Fiction #DVersePoets

They bought the house new, especially to avoid these sorts of things.There is nothing behind the wall, except a...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 26, 2020

Plan Gone To Ancient Crete #FlashFiction #WritingPrompt

Grinning, the newsreader finished his story and muttered something half-funny to the reporter next to him. Edmund muted the...

by Carol J Forrester

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Oct 4, 2020

Gods Out Of Men – #FlashFiction

When the coffee runs out, she drinks tea instead. It’s bad, overly floral and cloying. She drinks it anyway,...

by Carol J Forrester

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Sep 22, 2019

Heart Of The Dead #FlashFiction #SeptemberSpeculativeFictionPrompt

When the bodies washed ashore, the novices were there to pluck them from the mud. It wasn’t pleasant work....

by Carol J Forrester

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