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Shivering in Summer

A Poem by Ben Taylor

I guess you saw something I didn't.Sitting in a baseball field,arms crossed over legs,shivering as the sun turned its backto give us some privacy.You ..

Twin Flame Pt. 2

A Poem by Ben Taylor

I watched my plants die in the summer heat,not knowing what else to do but water them.The pale chartreuse of neglect has been haunting me.When winter,..

Twin Flame

A Poem by Ben Taylor

There is a fissure, a disconnect,a field of gaps and lacunae,that separates my consciousness from the concrete.An idea is willed into existence,an eph..

Employees Must Wash Hands

A Poem by Ben Taylor

The horizon is a crude slab of auberginecrumbling abjectly into the windswept wave-water.I am blank faced,emotionless,on the pebble strewn shore.I gla..

Eyeliner

A Poem by Ben Taylor

I saw you for the last time, tonight.As our cars parted ways at a branch in the road,I could have touched you if I had strained out the window,if you ..

Harmful Habits

A Poem by Ben Taylor

You were stunningly addictive.But now, with the cold sweats and the constant nausea,it's difficult to picture your face without my hands shaking.In th..

I'm Too Busy Trying To Fly Away

A Poem by Ben Taylor

Warm spring air, redolent of sunset,wafts through the kitchen window,absorbing the scent of warm mealsheating on the stove-top.The sibilant sounds of ..

Gordian Knot

A Poem by Ben Taylor

The cavity between my ribs is a tangled mess,a Gordian knot that can only be undonewith the brute force of great change.I have slipped between two dau..

Bottle of Jack

A Poem by Ben Taylor

Silk on fingers,the walls are made of stretched notes,insistent bass.I am another strand of thread in this intricate fabricthat keeps the sun from all..

Breathing Mountains

A Poem by Ben Taylor

The foam atop these liquid mountains freezesas it is whipped into the aubergine evening.The raft is coated in icy spray.With the bindings so frayed, i..