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Foot Washing by MichaelPollick
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Foot Washingby Michael Pollick
I could never understand her need to wash His feet; I did not come from Magdalene's world, That nervous sticky world of anonymous diddling, Which mixes its shekels with...
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Love and Lagniappe by MichaelPollick
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Love and Lagniappeby Michael Pollick
This is how easily two stiff souls can learn to bend, And pivot around the mulberry times Like dancers, defining their time and space.
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Urim and Thummin by MichaelPollick
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Urim and Thumminby Michael Pollick
Your tattooed stigmata is showing, my dear- that spot of willful blood lies dormant; while greedy hosts of Angels draw illicit lots, and seek redemption in performanc...
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Pearl Killers by MichaelPollick
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Pearl Killersby Michael Pollick
The Allegheny is an ancient river by most standards- You'll find plenty of evidence that shells once ruled the Earth; It was on this river that my Dad used his firs...
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The Unnamed | The Unnamed Duology Book 1 by renesmeewolfe
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The Unnamed | The Unnamed Duology...by K. Weikel
"I am Unnamed. My title is dead." In the World, the Planet, and the Base, it's either be number one or die. The alternative to dying, however, is to become an...
Brother to the Dragon, Companion to the Owl by MichaelPollick
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Brother to the Dragon, Companion t...by Michael Pollick
Somewhere in the white hot core of the Dancer's spirit lie the remnants of too much vision, lies the residue of a thousand broken treaties: lies the child who bartered w...
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My Love For Hot Boys by yolla_zaouk
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My Love For Hot Boysby zyolla
I felt sharp, hot rays hitting my skin. I looked up, covering my upper face with my hand as I watched the blue sky moving with each step I took ,on my way to the library...
Cambodian Music by MichaelPollick
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Cambodian Musicby Michael Pollick
Pol Pot's deflowered now who used to ride a water- smooth buffalo and kill onetwothreefourfive million traitors Justlikethat -- Jeezus, he...
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Grounded | The Trapped Trilogy  by renesmeewolfe
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Grounded | The Trapped Trilogy by K. Weikel
Eenralla lived in a Dome, That Dome was controlled by the Government. The Government had a secret. That secret is out now, thanks to Eenralla. But now it doesn't matte...
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Brother Judd by MichaelPollick
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Brother Juddby Michael Pollick
The fish could hardly be expected to remember us- Two sleep-dusted Ohio boys, working a pole with Brother Blake, methodically plinking the glass of Heritage Lake.
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Cleft for Me by MichaelPollick
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Cleft for Meby Michael Pollick
Four small whispers can now leave rehearsal, the last cigarette has been ground to ashes. It was once important for us to kill some Negroes, no matter how many times the...
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Bringing the Wendy's by MichaelPollick
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Bringing the Wendy'sby Michael Pollick
Just clang on the lamp if you need anything, mom. I'll just be lying here, thinking about how small morphine is, And how large life is going to get in six months to a ye...
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Loathly |  PUBLISHED by RennegadeHunter
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Loathly | PUBLISHEDby Sylver
Available on Kindle and Paperback now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D1CZKSY After nineteen years as a prisoner to the Stonerow curse, fate owes Lady Maud a cursebreake...
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Flesh and Principalities by MichaelPollick
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Flesh and Principalitiesby Michael Pollick
Pilate is doomed to clean his rifle forever- The walls will not forget these nights. If you decided to brave the waters of sanctioned terror, be sure to wear your Christ...
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Collateral Damage Report by MichaelPollick
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Collateral Damage Reportby Michael Pollick
Let us skip, you and I, through certain half-smelted streets; where time and conscience dissolve like watches, and glass shadows catch the first sun's rays fully on thei...
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Just Pretending by DanaCBurkey
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Just Pretendingby DanaCBurkey
Everything in Cam's life is finally going right. Despite many of her best friend being out of town for the summer, she is ready to have some fun. With her good friend Jo...
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