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you made me a stranger

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

I hiked today to the crest of Indian Seats the shadows of clouds dotted like raindrops the canopies of the forest, the grassed gaps between trees on..

collision

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

I met a girl for sex and when my dick gave out from nerves she rested her length against me and we talked about our siblingsin that moment I could alm..

I knelt as if in prayer

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

my tire went bust todayI changed it there on the hot bank of the highway rumble of passing steel rampant clouds of exhaust the sun laid into me with e..

munted

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

I drive cars with expired tags because I want to feel dangerous to someoneI want to have emotional swaymy car is dirty between rains because I am not ..

mind

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

Anxiety

it's getting too hot to think

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

I crave a frantic heart I step into footprints like familiar shoeswind flicks a dead leaf, old paint curledI don’t know the what and I’m f..

ecstasy

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

we are tall we are terriblewe are scarred & otherwise markedwe writhe naked in ecstasy of peace in nests of new grass replete in jagged youth in ..

nama rupa

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

I turn instead to the Buddhabowing student feet bare crown of head offeredsoles dirty caked in mud and hair of dogcorpse of fly in whorl of calloused ..

twenty-two

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

drunk on mouthwash it’s funnythe kick the very muleness of it funnygangling and gawking and pimple-scarred and beating on the breast of manhood ..

daysleep

A Poem by Daniel Atkinson

lazy after my chemical feast i draw the blinds reclinethe motes swim in my exhalation the blankets are hotthe sweat stickysalt-rimmed lips round a sou..