Tag Archives: poetry

Until We Dreamed It So

Posted on March 9, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

I had my eyes closed when I saw it, infinite space darkness so complete in the distance, we were points of light and we were spinning together, the same orbit, the same galaxy. Time was just beginning to burst into … Continue reading →

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Hammer Head

Posted on March 8, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

I know very well how I thunder through all of the magical mirrors and the frighteningly fragile sheets of glass. With my full-on hammer head I am bulky and sulky; my mouth is the oracle of doom the receptacle of … Continue reading →

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the sun over your shoulder

Posted on February 4, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Your soul is worth more than your anger and your pain. What heart is this that beats with rage enough to harm, to kill? One gaze into a still pool reveals the sun over your shoulder and transient clouds in … Continue reading →

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saxophone

Posted on February 1, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

why couldn’t I have put my legs together and just played it like they wanted me to? saxophone, with its brassy presence and the reed that nestled against my bottom lip, so strange, so natural but it was not meant … Continue reading →

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a heart you know

Posted on February 1, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Do you see them? They deliver your mail, they give you your morning cup of java, they hand you your change. I know you won’t see their paparazzi pics in the glossies or those sleazy websites that feed the hungry, … Continue reading →

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honor you, honor me

Posted on January 29, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

I know you know how it feels to have him crush you into the pavement with his words and his anger, only to scrape you like something he stepped in, scrape you off the bottom of his boot. Your innate … Continue reading →

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of pennywhistles and footfalls

Posted on January 26, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

There is dust on the needles of the Jack Pines and the high noon sun glints off little mirrors of Mica adorning the rocks like bling. Cactus dare to bloom here though the snow may come again, and hawks soar … Continue reading →

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Cooks County

Posted on January 21, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Cooks County Jail is a warehouse. They inventory degrees of madness, of loneliness and abandonment. Here they shelter people who think they are Jesus, women who pull out their hair men whose only crime is having concrete for a bed. … Continue reading →

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beehive

Posted on November 25, 2013 by theminstrelscitadel

“If I ever catch you with one of them, I’ll kill ya.” He was a sailor, he was a patriot, a Catholic, a husband and a good man. He was a bigot, he was short tempered and self righteous. He … Continue reading →

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I am sorry

Posted on November 25, 2013 by theminstrelscitadel

We were stumbling down an alley behind businesses and stone faced dwellings for trendy young families and local hipsters. They were the kind who bought their food from co-ops but didn’t volunteer. They drove expensive cars they wore expensive clothes … Continue reading →

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